Re: [DIYbio] The music of Chemical reactions

Josiah (posts here on the list) made something along those lines:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/5/4694324/biophysicist-uses-proteins-to-create-chromochord

Maybe you could even do something to detect the phonons emitted during
chemical reactions, using a piezo transducer or a calorimeter maybe?

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Yann Serim <noyanserim@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I need a chemist/biologist's help for my project.
>
> To analyze the state of a reaction, chemists most often use their sense of
> vision and smell. What if each reaction could have a distinct sound/melody
> such that chemists would associate a sound to reactions? This would may
> allow them to grasp key characteristics from it such as:
> - When is the reaction finished.
> - What is the most reactive phase of the reaction.
> - Did anything go wrong during the reaction.
>
> What if the music generated by the reactions actually sounded good (some
> artists might like this one...)?
>
> I plan to make a simple electronic circuit with a microcontroller connected
> to a speaker and sensors. The sensors would pickup specific data about the
> reaction (temperature, IR frequency emitted, color, transparency, disruption
> of magnetic field...) and feed the information to the controller. The
> controller would process the data and create sounds per a predetermined
> musical scheme dependent on the data (e.g. map the IR spectrum to the
> audible frequency spectrum).
>
> I am an electrical engineer, so I am not a specialist in chemistry.
> My issue:
> *What kind of data would be interesting to monitor in general reactions?
>
> Feel free to tell me what you think about this mini-project and give me
> diverse suggestions!!!
>
> I found a similar project online. You can read more about it in here:
> http://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/cw/2014/06/04/the-music-of-molecules/
>
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