Sounds of HIV

From the Scientific American Blog:

"There is no question that HIV is an ugly virus in terms of human health. Each year, it infects some 2.7 million additional people and leads to some two million deaths from AIDS. But a new album manages to locate some sonic beauty deep in its genome. Sounds of HIV (Azica Records) by composer Alexandra Pajak explores the patterns of the virus's nucleotides as well as the amino acids transcribed by HIV, playing through these biologic signatures in 17 tracks."

"Some of the proceeds from the new album, which was released October 26 and is performed by the Sequence Ensemble, will go toward HIV vaccine research at the Emory Vaccine Center."