A network of micro-computers communicate to generate sound together. Somewhere amid noise and music, the final composition is always changing depending on the interactions inside the network. Accompanying the sound, TV monitors display the process the computers are following in order to create this sounds.

On each screen, a hermetic colony of simple microorganisms is simulated on real time. The colony contains nutrients and comfortable/uncomfortable areas for the organisms.

Each organism has basic individual behaviours: move, feed, reproduce and die. These are predetermined by a particular 4x4 “DNA matrix”. Organisms have also social behaviours: flock, distribute, direct… Through evolution, behaviours are inherited, reshaped, discarded.

From the information of the organisms and all their interactions a constantly evolving music is generated on real time. This data-sonification allows the spectator to perceive the delicate balance between the arbitrary-determinism and the free-will of each system. This was conceived as an attempt to give the computer agency: the possibility to create. It is meant to generate empathy and equanimity and as consequence gaining animistic recognition from the spectators.