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Biology of the Physarum polycephalum Plasmodium: Preliminaries for Unconventional Computing Read chapter Read first chapter

2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Physarum-Based Memristors for Computer Music

Authors : Edward Braund, Raymond Sparrow, Eduardo Miranda

Published in: Advances in Physarum Machines

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

We present results into harnessing the memristive characteristics of Physarum polycephalum for computer music. Memristors are the recently discovered fourth fundamental passive circuit element that relates magnetic flux linkage and charge. Unlike the three established fundamental circuit elements, namely the capacitor, inductor, and resistor, the memristor is non-linear. The plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is an amorphous unicellular organism that has been discovered to exhibit memristive qualities. We confirm findings that the protoplasmic tube of Physarum polycephalum exhibits memristive properties. We conduct a study that investigates how the memristive qualities of the organism may be used to generate musical responses to seed material. Following on, we briefly present an artefact of our research that takes the form of a piece of music composed for live performance. In the final section, we discuss our future work. Here we offer an insight as to how we plan on expanding the usability of Physarum-based memristors by stabilising the component and overcoming some of the constraints we present within this text.

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Metadata
Title
Physarum-Based Memristors for Computer Music
Authors
Edward Braund
Raymond Sparrow
Eduardo Miranda
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Advances in Physarum Machines

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-26661-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-26662-6

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26662-6_34

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