Towards Molecular Musical Instruments: Interactive Sonifications of 17-Alanine, Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes

Supplementary materials for the paper:

Thomas J. Mitchell, Alex J. Jones, Michael B. O’Connor, Mark D. Wonnacott, David R. Glowacki, and Joseph Hyde. 2020. Towards Molecular Musical Instruments: Interactive Sonifications of 17-Alanine, Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes. In Proceedings of the 15th International Audio Mostly Conference (AM’20), September 15–17, 2020, Graz, Austria. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. doi.org/10.1145/3411109.3411143

17-Alanine.mov:

Video was created by Alex J. Jones at the University of Bristol

An immersive and interactive VR view of simulated 17-Alanine molecule with accompanying sonification.

GrapheneMusic.aif:

Composed by Joseph Hyde (www.josephhyde.co.uk/)

Example1.wav:

Molecule: 17-Alanine
Friction: 60
Timestep: 0.5
A: 0.1 D: 0.1 S: 1 R: 3
Wavetable Method: Relative
Note: C3
Velocity: 127
Temperature: 5
Automation: None

Example2. wav:

Molecule: 17-Alanine
Temperature: various
Friction: 60
Timestep: 0.5
Note: C3
Velocity: 127
A: 0.1 D: 0.1 S: 1 R: 3
Wavetable Method: Relative
Automation: Temperature

Example3.wav:

Molecule: 17-Alanine
Temperature: various
Friction: 100
Timestep: 0.78
Note: C3
Velocity: 127
A: 0.1 D: 0.1 S: 1 R: 0.5
Wavetable Method: Relative
Automation: Temperature