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Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 5, 2013 at 5:35am

Edible Opera: Artists Turn Music into an Algae Meal (Op-Ed)

http://www.livescience.com/39396-artists-turn-music-into-algae-meal...
Ailsa Sachdev is an editorial intern at Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club. She is a rising senior at Mount Holyoke College and spent last semester reporting on witchcraft in Morocco. This article was adapted from an article in Sierra. She contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

The opera may sound good, but it can taste even better — at least that's what artists Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta (Burton Nitta) think. Together, these masters of design and science have created the Algae Opera, which transforms a singer's voice into an edible experience.
An opera singer is transformed with biotechnology to form a unique relationship with algae.
The algae, which are a photosynthetic plant-like organism, feeds on the carbon dioxide in the singer's breath. As an important future food source, the singer's algae can also be eaten. Alongside listening to her music, the audience can also taste her song. To increase the growth of the algae the body of the singer is trained to use her extraordinary large lung capacity to produce the highest quality algae-product. The composition of the song and the singer's vocal technique are redesigned to specifically produce algae and enrich its taste. To do this, the composer and singer use the new science of sonic enhancement of food where different pitches and frequencies make food taste either bitter or sweet.
This is turning into another controversy:
A technician says: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TISKESUM4po
This is NOT "a technology". It's BULLSHIT. Saying it doesn't make it true. Scientists and engineers (like myself) come up with technology. Fat-headed self-declared "artists" come up with this useless stuff, and try to pawn it off as real to the equally idiotic media who repeat their claims without any investigation or even application of common sense.
Of course, this thing is such garbage that there's no WAY to blow bubbles through it. It's mechanically unfeasible. And what, there's supposed to be some kind of one way valve in her mouth that keeps the liquid in while letting her breath enter? I could go on and on... this is NOTHING.
This is not a practical thing in any way, is being presented as if it works when it obviously doesn't, and it not art, design, science OR technology. Yet all the press just eat it right up and spit it out as if you're going to see these on store shelves next week. I recommend holding your breath and saving your CO2 because it's coming soon! (Not!)