AIR Lab presents Protein Synthesis as Musical Structure, a thesis concert exploring how biology can shape live electronic music. The concert is centered on BioScape, a design research artefact and biology audio workstation developed in the intersection of HCI, artistic research, musification, and molecular biology. While earlier empirical work around the project has examined how biological actors may use music as a sensory and affective lens on their own field, this concert turns the perspective around and explores the usefulness of biology as compositional logic for musicians.

In the performance, biological structure is treated not as metaphor, but as an organizing principle for live electronic music. Sequence-based relations shape rhythm, harmonic movement, and larger musical form, producing patterns that remain coherent while resisting familiar periodic stability. The concert asks what it means to compose and perform through an external biological logic, and how improvising musicians respond to a structure that is internally consistent yet unfamiliar in its temporal and harmonic behavior.

The performance features Thor Madsen (guitar), Malthe Beck (tenor saxophone), Steen Rock (electronics), and Tao Højgaard, designer of BioScape.

EVENT ORGANIZER
Tao Højgaard