Posted on 04/30/2009 3:53:29 AM PDT by grey_whiskers
Swine flu may be inspiring fear worldwide, but for Stephan Zielinski of San Francisco, California, it inspired a song.
The virus has the classification H1N1 because it includes two key viral proteins, hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N). Zielinski took the genetic sequence of a variant of hemagglutinin and created a computer algorithm to turn it into music.
Zielinski, 41, is not a biochemist or a professional musician -- he's a writer, photographer, computer programmer, and blogger who creates music in his spare time. But he's fascinated that, even though biologists can map the genome of the virus and predict what the hemagglutinin protein looks like, the human body still cannot distinguish it as the "bad guy" -- at least, not until there's a vaccine. Listen to the song
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
and prayers UP!
Truly weird.
Yes, it’s weird, and sometimes weirdly beautiful, sometimes weirdly boring...like sitting by a pond where primordial life begins.
What would other compositions sound like? More melodic? More “Gregorian”. I’ll bet plant genetic info is more Gregorian.
includes two key viral proteins, hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N). Zielinski took the genetic sequence of a variant of hemagglutinin and created a computer algorithm to turn it into music.He can star as the Professor in the remake of Gilligan's Island.
>>to turn it into music.
Marty Robbins song parody sung by a listener yesterday on the Howie Carr show:
Down in the west Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican girl
She was contagious and gave me the swine flu
Twelve hours later, I started to hurl...
LOL! That’s a new one. One of the weirder articles in a while. Kinda cool though.
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