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  1. Re:Music by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Grateful Dead Percussionist Makes Music From Supernovas

    The Shamen, the techno act originally from Scotland but based in London in the 1990s, had a tune on one of their CDs which was generated from the DNA sequence and the amino acid characteristics of the S2 protein. It's the receptor protein for serotonin, so it was the perfect match (feel good vibes, rave music).

    Read about it here. It's interesting how they integrated a base pair sequence into the four notes used, and how the 3 base pairs per codon meant it was done as a waltz (one-two-three, one-two-three)...

    You can hear a sample of it here in AIFF format.

  2. Re:Music by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Grateful Dead Percussionist Makes Music From Supernovas

    The Shamen, the techno act originally from Scotland but based in London in the 1990s, had a tune on one of their CDs which was generated from the DNA sequence and the amino acid characteristics of the S2 protein. It's the receptor protein for serotonin, so it was the perfect match (feel good vibes, rave music).

    Read about it here. It's interesting how they integrated a base pair sequence into the four notes used, and how the 3 base pairs per codon meant it was done as a waltz (one-two-three, one-two-three)...

    You can hear a sample of it here in AIFF format.

  3. A bit behind... by minvaren · · Score: 1 · on DNA-Radio, Tune In To Your Chromosomes

    The Shamen did this with their song S2 Translation almost 15 years ago. Granted, it was a segment of a protein instead of the full genome, but it sure sounded better.

  4. Prior art by Shamen by pesc · · Score: 2, Informative · on Music From DNA Patented

    In about 1995, The Shamen released the track S2 Translation which was generated by decoding the DNA sequence of the S2 protein. http://www.nemeton.com/axis-mutatis/s2.html

  5. The Shamen did exactly this in1995 by psyclops · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Music From DNA Patented

    The track 'S2 Translation' on the Shamen album Axis Mutatis was *exactly* this, being music generated from the DNA sequence of the S2 protein. Very odd track, strangely hypnotic and ethereal but a little annoying after a while. Pretty visible prior art if you ask me (though IANAL). More about the track here. Not surprisingly, the S2 protein is the receptor for serotonin...

  6. The Shamen's "S2 Translation" is prior art by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Music From DNA Patented

    What a crock. I did this using CSound in 1997 after listening to The Shamen's 1995 album Axis Mutatis, which has a track that does the same thing called "S2 Translation". Do they even Google for prior art? These patent inspectors are truly no Einsteins.

    Here's a link with a description of the method used to make "S2 Translation":
    http://www.nemeton.com/axis-mutatis/s2.html

  7. Re:No, really, an important point by DrSkwid · · Score: 1 · on Scientists Find New Painkiller From Saliva

    It was outlawed to protect the US paper industry. THC was an excuse.

    see http://www.nemeton.com/axis-mutatis/hemp.html

    and plenty of other sources

    Mind you, not that I was there in 1937 to witness it but it sounds true.