Bio-Sonification • Mycelium Bio-Materials • Slime Mould
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Build your own portable Nanotopian MIDI Bio-Sonification Module to record and playback Bio-Data from nature.
Sunday afternoon, March 8th, 1pm start. Module kits are $45/pp for registered workshop participants. The workshop is $50/pp
Reserve your seat soon, seats/kits sell out fast!
Collaborate sonically with the non-human organisms around you.
Workshop participants receive step by step guidance putting together their Modules and help in understanding how the device works.
Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of soldering is very important. Here is a link to the Mighty Ohm’s, fullsoldercomic_en
Not included:
USB/Lightning to MIDI or MIDI to MIDI cables. These cables can be found at Moog Audio, Long & McQuade, Saved by Technology, Amazon, etc
iConnectivity
Roland
Search under MIDI interfaces
“Bio-sonification,” basically means using technology to turn the bio-rhythms of living organisms into sound.
Biodata Sonification is a process to translate complex real-time sensor data into musical notes and controls, exploring the auditory sensory modality to provide insights into invisible phenomenon.
Mapping with Slime Mould • Sunday, March 22nd 1pm-4pm $50/pp 
During this workshop, Tosca Terán introduces the potential of slime mould for collaboration at the intersection of art and science. Participants learn how to transform their kitchens and closets into safe, mini-Physarum Biolabs and leave the workshop with a feeding and growing kit, their own Slime mould, as well as a wide array of possibilities of slime mould (Physarum polycephalum*) culturing. The workshop invites participants to experiment with different biological media and feeding substrates, reflecting on how they inform the growth and morphology of protozoans and protists.
*Physarum polycephalum is a yellow ameboid dweller of decaying logs and decomposing vegetation on dim forest floors. It made headlines when Japanese biologists demonstrated its uncanny ability to optimize paths through mazes and reproduce tracks between mapped Tokyo railway stations. Since then, slime mould has become an attractive living substrate for research in diverse areas such as mathematical modelling, computation and bio-art.
Image Credit: Tosca Terán, Physarym polycephalum & the TTC, 2016.
Link: https://soundcloud.com/nanotopia/episode-3-special-guest-physarum-polycephalum
