The sounds of science: biochemistry and the cosmos inspire new music

Abstract

The Muse-IC Project Salle Cortot, Paris 12 March 2019 In July 2015, biophysicist Judith Miné-Hattab turned on her super-resolution microscope to test a new fluorescence-labelling technique for the first time. The thundering chords of Edvard Grieg's 1868 Piano Concerto in A Minor were playing in the background, through her laptop speakers. Down her eyepiece, she delighted in the sight of DNA-repair proteins waltzing around a yeast cell — in near-perfect harmony with the swirling piano arpeggios of the first movement's cadenza.