Miquel Àngel Pujana, researcher at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute - Catalan Institute of Oncology, came to us with an idea: turning genetic information into music. We could think of nothing better than putting him in contact with Dr. Magda Polo Pujadas and her research group Ekho, at the University of Barcelona. Hèlix was born from that conversation. 

The work develops a system of sonic transcoding that interprets the molecular foundation defining what makes us human, along with the individual and functional specificities found across ethnicities. To make this possible, artificial intelligence models are applied, with the aim of generating musical structures that are both formally coherent and epistemologically meaningful.

The central hypothesis holds that the molecular patterns that define us as humans, as well as our functions and differences, can be translated into coherent musical structures, and that this translation can produce forms of auditory experience that allow access to the complexity of life's biological foundation from a perceptual perspective accessible to the general public.