Martin Eastwood

Another demo of Nasir, this time using the dna function to create music from genetic sequences. Nasir maps the codons within the gene chromatically from MIDI note 36 upwards by default. You can also pass an array of notes into the function defining specific notes to use or even just name a scale and Nasir will automatically constrain the gene to play within the scale

The demo below uses the human cytochrome P450 3A4 gene, which is included in the Nasir download as cyp3a4.txt as an example to show you the format used. A great source of gene sequences is Genbank.