Flutist Elizabeth Erenberg and I were invited to the Massachusett’s Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Lincoln Laboratory on August 9, 2013, to present Spinning Melodies Like Silk, a short interactive program based on our part in a project involving the synthesis of bio-inspired silk fibers.

The initial work was published by collaborators Joyce Wong (Boston University, also a cellist), and Marcus Bueller (MIT), as Materials by Design: Merging Proteins and Music in Nano Today, and is available at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. A summary (with video and my scores), may be found at the MIT news site. A briefer account appears in Wired magazine.

Elizabeth also played the music, for solo flute, that can be heard in the video below (courtesy of MIT).