My Liver Sounds Like Schoenberg
Harvard Medical School fellow Gil Alterovitz is developing a computer application that translates protein and gene expressions into music. Healthy genes give you harmonic chords. Disease gives you discord. The application works by mapping and measuring the network of physiological signals generated by our bodies. “There are lots of correlations between physiological variables,” Alterovitz tells MIT’s Technology Review. “If heart rate is higher, other variables will move together in response, and you can simplify that redundancy and information.”
Michael Cervieri is Executive Producer of ScribeMedia.Org and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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