{"id":117,"date":"2009-04-29T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T08:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=117"},"modified":"2009-04-30T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T12:04:34","slug":"musical-swine-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/04\/29\/musical-swine-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Swine Flu!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This does exactly what it says on the tin.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/2009\/04\/28\/swine-flu-ha-as-ambient-music\/\">Stephan Zielinski has set swine flu to music<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The algorithm I used is a bit complicated, but just in case you\u2019re curious: since the gene is expressed as a surface protein antibodies can sense, it\u2019s considered as a string of amino acids. \u00a0Each beat corresponds to one amino acid, and the piece is in 3\/4 time, so each six measures would correspond to five turns around the alpha structure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have next to no idea what any of this means.\u00a0 But it <em>looks<\/em> impressive.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE, 30.iv.09: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uUvVEfspXn4&amp;feature=channel_page\">Stop the internet.\u00a0 We have a winner.<\/a><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This does exactly what it says on the tin.\u00a0 Stephan Zielinski has set swine flu to music: The algorithm I used is a bit complicated, but just in case you\u2019re curious: since the gene is expressed as a surface protein antibodies can sense, it\u2019s considered as a string of amino acids. \u00a0Each beat corresponds to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/04\/29\/musical-swine-flu\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curios"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}