tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441491750914005356.post5623161228945467682..comments2023-06-16T12:27:49.821+01:00Comments on Microbes Rule the Waves - 2013: Science gets weird: Microbial Bebop, creating music from complex dynamics in microbial ecologyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441491750914005356.post-4275561887077305232013-11-04T13:18:26.672+00:002013-11-04T13:18:26.672+00:00Saxonomy.Saxonomy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09200030439728561332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441491750914005356.post-38132789749756390622013-10-30T13:30:38.810+00:002013-10-30T13:30:38.810+00:00This is amazing! It’s really interesting that they...This is amazing! It’s really interesting that they choose jazz as their choice of style to base their study on, as it’s a much more “laid-back” genre of music that can involve a wide range of different techniques and interpretations, and microbial communities are so diverse and complicated it almost seems fitting!<br />On the other hand, as you mentioned before about the different melodies being associated with specific taxa or groups, this could be an interesting way of demonstrating the phylogenetic relationships between them to people who cannot understand the biology and the genetics, but are able to relate to the music- i.e. the more similar two particular melodies are, the more closely related the groups?<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01828256514411326878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441491750914005356.post-81902418848630241302013-10-30T10:28:49.512+00:002013-10-30T10:28:49.512+00:00That's a fascinating approach! The data come f...That's a fascinating approach! The data come from the work that Jack Gilbert did when he was at PML. You can hear examples at this link https://soundcloud.com/plos-one-media/sets/microbial-bebop<br />Is anybody good at choreography - maybe we could have a dance instead of or next seminar? Colin Munnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574545828249747262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441491750914005356.post-45740779110603435722013-10-29T17:36:26.429+00:002013-10-29T17:36:26.429+00:00Well for example in of their compositions 'Blo...Well for example in of their compositions 'Bloom' there are many different melodies that each associate with a particular rare species or taxa, one each for: Cyanobacteria, Vibrionales, Opitulates, Pseudomondales, Rhizobiales, Bacillales, Oceanospirallales, and Sphingomonadales. Each melody comes to the foreground in the music as each associated taxa blooms across the year, with the chords representing the salinity and chlorophyll A concentrations.<br />I feel its in no way an exact science, and is very much dependent on the musical skills and tastes of those creating it, more a novelty than anything, yet they claim it will have its uses.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09200030439728561332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441491750914005356.post-14622806957386805852013-10-29T17:18:12.460+00:002013-10-29T17:18:12.460+00:00I wonder if you can buy the records of it soon..I ...I wonder if you can buy the records of it soon..I would definitely listen to them. ;-)<br />However, this is actually very interesting, do they focus on the whole community or just some phylogenetic groups? I could imagine that it would sound quite confusing having to focus on many groups at the same time that might react differently to changes in the environment (e.g. halotolerant vs. halophiles/halophobes). <br /><br />Malin Tietjenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13381694594300204380noreply@blogger.com