Microbial Music

1 décembre 2009 // Filed under Theory

This project is an attempt to capture images of living micro organisms from the water sold on the streets of this city, to view that information through a cartographic lens and finally convert the data into an audio-visual output for exhibition .  Due to the span of one week allotted for this project, my lens has been focused to the streets of my residence, Yelahanka, Bangalore. The intention however, is to use the concept behind the project  in the future to map food and water around Bangalore and  to inspect the things that we consume unhesitatingly everyday.

Through this, I intend to  learn to use software tools such as Metamap ,Pure Data and Processing and to construct my own hardware such as a 400x microscope using cheap and instantly available material around me.

Making your own Microscope:

Hacking a webcam to result in a microscope that ranges from (100 – 400)x

My Garage Lab Kit:

Some collected samples of water from street vendors and small restaurants:

Investigating for microbes:

Viewing the image on a computer screen:

Images of some microbes found:

Stills from the compiled audio-visual output:

2009-12-01  ::  neha bhat