The base material for the formation of all the sounds are spectral lines of atoms converted into frequencies of tens to thousands of oscillators of additive synthesis. Each element generates a unique sound spectrum, which is further transformed and modulated by numbers of the Mendeleev Periodic Table of Elements. The project attempts to convert the chemical and physical logic into musical one.

Chemical reaction as music.

The project started with my residency (supported of the International Visegrad Fund) at A4 – Space for Contemporary Culture, where I worked on the development of an “atomic sound synthesis”. For further musical cooperation I invited Angakok Thoth, Slovak artist who would refill otherwise strictly digitally generated sound with analog synthesis and processes in his modular synthesizer. During this residency was developed basic system and concept of the sonification of spectroscopic datasets.

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http://angakok-thoth.tumblr.com

 Each spectral line means one oscillator (sine/tri/saw/tang/wave). The relative intensity is logarithmically recalculated into he loudness of the osc. I use data from NIST database for this project. I use all wavelengths observed in vacuum. So even non visible light is sonificated. Because of huge amount of the lines ( sometimes few thousands) I had to reduce them to not overload the processor with my max/msp patch. Supercollider would be more suitable, but thats the next step… 

In years 2016-2018 I continued with development of the project thanks to Specific research at JAMU. I developed more possibilities of the sonification and also presented the project through many concerts.Presentation of the project was also at two international conferences: ICAD 2016 (Canberra) and klingt.gut! Symposium on Sound (Hamburg) where the project was awarded for “Excellence in sound-art and sound design” in category performances. In 2019 I worked at STEIM (Amsterdam) on hardware interface for this software. 

Fluor:

Argentum:

Indium:

Ferum:

Beryllium: