Month: September 2022

MUSICAL SLIME MOULD. "When Miranda tickles the keys, information about the notes is sent via a microphone to a computer, which translates the sounds into electrical signals that are sent to the biocomputer. The slime mold processes these electrical signals and sends that information back to the conventional computer, which then creates voltages. These voltages cause electromagnets, hovering above the piano strings, to vibrate the strings, causing the wobbly notes you hear." https://lnkd.in/d-DJxqq View in LinkedIn

CHEMICAL TO ELECTRICAL INTERFACE. "The electrodes captured signals as the mold either headed towards food or shied away from light, producing a log of how the loosely affiliated cells communicate with each other. Since slime mold possesses a kind of decentralized, low-level intelligence — a mass of mold can even form memories — that's not too far from studying the workings of a simple brain." https://lnkd.in/d62pepS View in LinkedIn

SLIME MOLD EMOCIONS. "Ella Gale has created a link between slime mold "emotions" and a humanoid face. Gale let slime mold ooze across an environment full of both food and electrodes. The electrodes captured signals as the mold either headed towards food or shied away from light, producing a log of how the loosely affiliated cells communicate with each other." https://lnkd.in/d62pepS View in LinkedIn

SELF-RESPONSIVE. "The Artist Who’s Making Cybernetic Slime Mold Sing. Slime mold responds to external stimuli, so, upon hearing and seeing its own electrical signal, it reacts—creating a new and different electrical pattern. And so the process continues and the sound evolves into a cybernetic slime mold composition." http://singularityhub.com/2015/07/29/the-artist-whos-making-cybernetic-slime-mold-sing/ View in LinkedIn

LISTENING TO ITSELF. "Martin’s project converts the natural electrical signals produced by slime mold into light and sound. But he then takes it one step further by creating a feedback loop. The system gathers the signal, feeds it to an evolutionary algorithm, converts the result into light and sound, then plays it back to the slime mold." http://singularityhub.com/2015/07/29/the-artist-whos-making-cybernetic-slime-mold-sing/ View in LinkedIn

EVOLVING RESPONSE. "Slime mold responds to external stimuli, so, upon hearing and seeing its own electrical signal, it reacts—creating a new and different electrical pattern. And so the process continues and the sound evolves into a cybernetic slime mold composition." http://singularityhub.com/2015/07/29/the-artist-whos-making-cybernetic-slime-mold-sing/ View in LinkedIn

BACTERIAL CHATTER is sufficiently sophisticated to create sophisticated swarm behavior called quorum sensing. View in LinkedIn

QUORUM SENSING. "Although quorum sensing has predominantly been studied for single species, there is mounting evidence for multispecies quorum sensing." http://jb.asm.org/content/187/16/5507.full View in LinkedIn

BACTERIAL EAVESDROPPING. "In some cases, bacteria unable to synthesize their own signal are capable of responding to signals of other bacteria, eavesdropping on their competitors, or synchronizing with collaborators.” http://jb.asm.org/content/187/16/5507.full View in LinkedIn