Protein Synthesis as Musical Structure is a thesis concert centered on BioScape, a design research artefact and biology audio workstation developed in the intersection of HCI, artistic research, musification, and molecular biology. While earlier empirical work around the project has focused on how biological actors may use music as a sensory and affective lens on their own field, this concert turns the perspective around: it explores the usefulness of biology as compositional logic for musicians.

In the performance, biological structure is not treated as metaphor, but as an organizing principle for live electronic music. Sequence-based relations shape rhythm, harmonic movement, and large-scale musical form, producing patterns that remain coherent yet resist familiar periodic stability. The result is a musical environment in which structure turns, shifts, and unfolds according to a logic that comes from outside conventional compositional practice.

This raises a set of artistic and research-oriented questions: What does it mean to compose through an external biological logic? How does such a framework affect live electronic performance? And what happens when improvising musicians engage with a structure that is internally consistent, yet unfamiliar in its temporal and harmonic behavior?

The concert features Thor Madsen (guitar), Malthe Beck (tenor saxophone), Steen Rock (electronics), and Tao Højgaard, the designer of BioScape and MSc candidate in Digital Design and Interactive Technologies at ITU.