Jay Barros began working in the more experimental side of theatre in 1994. At the end of that decade, he moved to New York to study film and came into contact with all sorts of underground culture projects based around the Lower East Side. He is now based in Madrid, and he founded "Sinantena," an online multimedia streaming service, with members of the Telepies collective, in order to bring technology to the people. In recent years, Jay has divided his time between advocating open source software and his artistic and sound work.

"The Sounds of Science" uses cheap and accessible equipment, which is mainly recycled, to create remixes of sounds and images gathered from our microscopic domestic/urban context. This produces rhythms and frequencies that provide a musical score for a visual journey that shows the astonishing realities that exist beyond our everyday vision. Based on concepts of petri art, bacterial art, bio art and bio punk, "The Sounds of Science" uses a home-made microscope designed with a CCD sensor from a camera and the lens from a CD player. Various image processing programmes such as Pure Data are used to analyse various samples from protozoa gathered in urban environments, in order to make them into algorithms which provide the basis for visual and sound composition.

Project location: CCCB - Floor -1

http://biomusic.labbs.net