Other work in this area (Score 1)

This subject tweaked my memory - it turns out that the father of one of my high school pals worked in this area as well, in the 1981 time frame. Susumu Ohno worked at the City of Hope Cancer Center. His obituary, which mentions this work, is at

http://www.cityofhope.org/cohpress/Medical_Scien ce /Ohno_obit.htm

A web search on "Susumu Ohno City of Hope Music" yields numerous other citations, including this one:

Dr. Susumu Ohno, a geneticist at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope in Duarte, California believes that the elements of nature have a unique series of organized identifying pitches. He assigned a musical pitch to the elements (do)Cytosine, (re mi) adenine, (fa sol)guanine (la ti) ihymine, that exist in creatures, thereby making melodies. All creatures have different melodies. When played before professional musician, they believed them to be melodies created by Bach, Brahms, Chopin and other masters because of their intricacies and organization. Even cancer cells have their own "melodies" The Body of Music Chapter 13 page 141 "Meaning and Medicine" Larry Dossey, MD Bantam

As I recall, he used a Macintosh to produce the music.

...Mark