Abstract opera performed by micro-organisms

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In Microscopic Opera is and abstract opera performed by the micro-organism C. elegans. A tiny worm of less than a mm in length, and the workhorse for genomics research.

The completely powerless worms are monitored by scientist from their first cell division to their death and have gone trough thousands of generations of manmade mutations and alterations.

In this piece I give them a little influence in the macroscopic world outside their petridish.

Each petridish contains different strains of C.elegans, that each move in a different way. All petridishes are filmed with a usb microscope and shown live on one of the five screens. Special software translates the movements of the worms into sound in real time. (5 channel)

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