excerpt from genome reader || 10'02" mp3 13.4MB

_{thanks to Aaron Drake for providing this mix}

genome reader is community participation project. In April of 2006 I put out a call for recordings of peoples' voices speaking the letters A,C,G and T in any language. I then wrote a piece of software that reads the human genetic sequence using the voices of the contributers. A recording of the output of the software is currently touring the US and Europe with Aaron Drake's Radio Transmission Orchestra.

One interesting aspect of the project was figuring how to store the large amount of information needed to represent the human genome. I finally decided on a two bit system with A being represented by 00, C by 01, G by 10 and T by 11. Each byte of the file comprises four DNA bases. In addition to the genome reader software I wrote a command line C progam to convert from a ASCII text representation of the sequence to the two bit format and vise versa.

Special Thanks to the following people for contributing their voices to the project:

Bjorn Eriksson
Richard Lainhart
Caroline Meyers
Doug Lowry
Franci Geller
Andy Barth
Dennis
Fred Stites
Ryan Corey
Lee Riddlemoser Ray
April Guthrie
Aaron Drake
Marcelo Silveyra
Clint Haycraft
Marja Liisa Kay
Harmony Jiroudek
Lewis Keller
Stina Hanson
Daniel Corral
Travis Tetzlaff
James Tenney
Joyce Hwang
Ashley Walters
Luke Thomas Taylor
Nancy Usher
Phillip Stearns
Kyle Ross
Hyperdyne
Masahiko Sunami
Doug Barrett