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Bacteria
SciShow Tangents
How to Make Music Out of the Microbiome
Biota beats is a collaboration between artists, musicians, scientists, and engineers to create music out of the microbiome. To produce the bacterial beats, the team samples bacteria from various parts of the body and then streak them onto a large agar plate. And after some time, they take images of the plates to gather data from the colonies growing on the plates. That was then converted into musical notes played by an instrument corresponding to the part of the body of origin. Of the bacteria. What's the armpit instrument? It's a saxophone. I just made that up. Probably just the noise. Far noises.
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