Bacterial Orchestra

An evolving cluster of aggressive, and possibly angry, iPhones wants to take over the world! The experiment is called “Public Epidemic No 1″ and the goal is to create a world-wide audio illness, infecting one cell at a time. The cells are coerced into listening to their environment and then echoing the sounds selectively and intelligently to produce music collectively. One cell by itself simply echos its surroundings like a parrot, but, if you can imagine an audience full of cells, thousands of cells in the same room, you have a musical cell pandemic.

Interestingly, each cell has conditions of existence: “Every cell has a unique DNA. Only the ones that are musical fit enough survives. If the surroundings doesn’t meet up to its conditions - too noisy, too quiet or no distinct pulse - the cell dies and is reborn with a new, hopefully better, set of DNA.”

Since the cells communicate exclusively with audio, the experiment is scalable to any size. Visit the Bacterial Orchestra website.