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Micromondo (Microworld) is a biohacking project that sprouts from the desire to share scientific/biological concepts and images through performance art. Using DIY techniques, a microscope was developed by hacking a webcam, thus enabling to watch a lively microworld so hidden to our eyes. This grants an innovative view of microrganisms, algae and histological section to set you on a journey from science to bioart.
The basic idea of the installation is to achieve a process of “sonification” through the dynamics emerging from a sample of microorganisms, analyzed under the hacked electronic microscope.
It was written a simple sketch, based on the great <> in Processing, that makes the “motion capture” of video frames detcted by the webcam of the microscope, through the traking of bright pixel areas.
These data are mapped onto parameters of a granular sound processing algorithm. In particular are the x,y values​​, and number of “blob detection” processed, mapped onto parameters of density and statistical distribution (random interonset and duration) of the “quanta” of sound, obtained in real-time from the audio input of the converter. For the Musical Signal Processing part I used the BEADS project library.
THANKS FOR THE LEARNING AND COLLABORATION TO PAULA PIN, GENITAL WARTS (MUSICIAN) , MARC DUSSELLER, RIOT STUDIO

PAULA PIN
IRMA NEX

FOR BUILDING YOUR MICROSCOPE SEE HERE:
https://hackteria.org/wiki/DIY_microscopy