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Here’s my little music project for how the breast cancer gene BRCA1 sounds using my own mapping technique. DNA codes for proteins based on the genetic code that maps a chain of three nucleotides to an amino acid. I let the beginning sequence of the DNA choose how the notes were assigned to the 20 amino acids by assigning the first notes in the order of the scale. I chose the key of D minor, because that's a sad key and cancer is sad.

I used the violin because I thought it was the saddest sounding instrument solely based on the gesture made by rubbing the thumb and forefinger together to imitate playing the world's smallest violin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrS229TWzI0

Quote from Nigel Tufnel in Spinal Tap: "It's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why."

This is really cool!

It reminds me of a project where a team tweaked a man's hearing aids to create an audio landscape based off nearby wifi networks.

This is science, interesting