Music with Unconventional Computing : Towards a Platform for Physarum Polycephalum Sound Synthesis

Our research is concerned with the application of novel engineering paradigms implemented on biological substrates in the field of computer music. Computers have been programmed to produce sound since the beginning of the 1950’s. Nowadays, the computer is ubiquitous in many aspects of music, ranging from software for musical composition and production, to systems for distribution of music on the Internet. Therefore, it is likely that future developments in computational science will have an impact in music technology. This paper introduces a preliminary platform for digitizing data from a biological substance for collation and sonification. Contained, is a survey of existing platforms with a parallel study into the construction of our platform.