{"id":3618,"date":"2016-06-05T18:31:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T18:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2016-06-05T18:31:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T18:31:46","slug":"cellf-the-worlds-first-neural-synthesiser-we-make-money-not-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/05\/cellf-the-worlds-first-neural-synthesiser-we-make-money-not-art\/","title":{"rendered":"cellF, the world\u2019s first neural synthesiser \u2013 We Make Money Not Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-make-money-not-art.com\/cellf-the-worlds-first-neural-synthesiser\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/19imageviewmachine.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/guybenary.com\/\">Guy Ben-Ary<\/a> has spent 4 years collaborating with scientists and other artists to develop a musical instrument controlled by a neural network bio-engineered from his own skin cells.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cbrain\u201d of cellF is a biological neural network that started its life on the artist\u2019s arm. Skin cells taken with a biopsy were converted into neural stem cells using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell\">Induced Pluripotent Stem cell technology<\/a>. These neural stem cells were then fully differentiated into neural networks over a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multielectrode_array\">Multi-Electrode Array dish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The neural network is now able to play live sessions with human musicians by controlling custom-built synthesizers. The music of the human performer is fed to the neurons as stimulation, and the neurons respond by controlling the analogue synthesizers. Both the human musician and Ben-Ary\u2019s extended brain are thus fully interacting with each other to create improvised sound pieces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/we-make-money-not-art.com\/cellf-the-worlds-first-neural-synthesiser\/\">cellF, the world\u2019s first neural synthesiser \u2013 We Make Money Not Art<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guy Ben-Ary has spent 4 years collaborating with scientists and other artists to develop a musical instrument controlled by a neural network bio-engineered from his own skin cells. The \u201cbrain\u201d of cellF is a biological neural network that started its life on the artist\u2019s arm. Skin cells taken with a biopsy were converted into neural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Wm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3620,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions\/3620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}