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"Dihydrotestosterone" (2000) is another DNA piece. The title refers to a hormone that results from enzyme conversion of testosterone, which serves to stimulate the development of male sexual characteristics. This is one of five male hormones featured in Gena’s sound installation Him, Himself and He, which was commissioned for “From Steel to Flesh,” an exhibit held in 2001 during the first Miss USA Pageant, under the auspices of the Trump Casino in Gary, Indiana. The masculinity-themed show was located adjacent to the facilities used by the beauty contestants on the campus of Indiana University Northwest. There is no score to the work; Gena designed an algorithm that would translate the codons to MIDI values that would directly drive a Yamaha TX802 synthesizer with eight different timbres, each representing one of the eight classes of amino acids.

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from Peter Gena: Beethoven in Soho and Other Works, released October 6, 2023
digitally synthesized DNA sequences; DNA Consultation: Charles M. Strom PhD, MD

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Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc., which records under the label New World Records, was founded in 1975.

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