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Music from the web

26.04.2021

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), together with colleagues from Studio Tomás Saraceno, have studied the properties of the web and converted it into music.

Dr. Markus Buhler, who has long been working on extracting rhythms and melodies of non-human origin from natural materials, compared the threads of the web to vibrating strings. The web seemed to the researcher to be a very promising material.

The researchers scanned the web as it was being built with a laser to obtain XNUMXD cross sections and then used computer algorithms to reconstruct the web's XNUMXD architecture. Its threads were assigned different frequencies of sound, peculiar notes. Thanks to this, it was possible to investigate the time sequence of building a network in sound form.

It remains only to pull the threads on an instrument that looks like a harp. It turned out to play the music of the web - with unusual concerts, scientists even spoke to the public.

Knowing the structure of the web and translating it into music could have a variety of uses, scientists say, from 3D printers that can mimic a spider's ability to "print" a web, to interspecies communication with spiders. For this purpose, for example, the vibrations of the web were recorded during its creation, or during communication with other spiders or the ceremony of courting females.

Scientists have also created a virtual reality that allows people to "enter" inside the web to imagine the environment in which the spider lives.

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