Computer music meets unconventional computing: Towards sound synthesis with in vitro neuronal networks

Miranda, Eduardo R.; Bull, Larry; Gueguen, Fran�ois; Uroukov, Ivan S.

Abstract

The feasibility of synthesizing sounds with hybrid wetware-silicon devices has been explored with the use of in vitro neuronal networks. The basics of culturing brain cells has been introduced while the procedures that has been established to stimulate the in vitro neuronal networks has been presented. Then, the technique on sonifying the behavior of neuronal networks which has been developed was described while the initial results of developing the techniques to steer the behavior of the networks have been reported. The main goal of this paper is to have some form of controllability and repeatability in the system. This sound-synthesis technique has an important property in that it has the ability to produce different types of sounds with a certain degree of predictable control.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Sep 17, 2009
• Journal: Computer Music Journal
• Print ISSN: 0148-9267
• Electronic ISSN: 1531-5169
• Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 9-18
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/comj.2009.33.1.9
• Keywords: computer music, sound synthesis
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/997804
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/comj.2009.33.1.9