UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTING FOR MUSIC: SOUND SYNTHESIS WITH SLIME MOULD

This paper reports on the recent outcomes from our research into Unconventional Computing for sound and music using slime mould of Physarum polycephalum. This slime mould is a huge single cell with thousands of nuclei, which behaves like a giant amoeba. During its foraging behaviour it produces electrical activity corresponding to different physiological states. We developed a method to render sounds from such electrical activity. The behaviour of the plasmodium can be steered in order to render different sounds.