Hippocampus Guttulatus
From the DNA of Hippocampus guttulatus sampled by the University of Bari in Taranto’s Mar Piccolo. Enhancing music with Al and editing video by Luca Desiderato. The music of DNA of Hippocampus guttulatus is in collaboration with UniBa UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI ALDO MORO I MAREVIVO Puglia MOVK EUROSYNG Coordinator Prof. Dino Pierri Marine Zoology, University of Bari, member of the Marevivo scientific committee.
Thanks for the videos from the documentary “Within Arm’s Reach”: Charlotte Cayré, Luca Vedrucci, and Riccardo Cingillo.
Thanks for the videos of the seahorse release, filmed by Roberto Rinaldi. Thanks to the DBBA of the University of Bari for the seahorse videos.
The Plant Path Ostuni
This playlist includes 20 musical pieces based on 20 native plants from the countryside of Ostuni (Puglia, Southern Italy). For the project, we sampled the plants to extract their DNA and translate it into music. The compositions were then created using AI.
Apulian Livingstone
Apulian Livingston is the first short film of DNA of Music, produced by Associazione Culturale CLABS and directed by the Apulian videomaker Luca Desiderato.
Inspired by the story “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” (Richard Bach, 1970), we wanted to narrate our land, Apulia, through the life and flight of the most common seagull species on its coasts: the Yellow-legged Gull.
The music of this short film has the flavor of freedom and flight, the feeling of being able to take off into the air just like a seagull: to create it, the genetic sequence of the DNA of the Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) was translated into notes, later harmonized by the Apulian composer Mattia Vlad Morleo.
