Massive Attack is one of those groups that is always one step ahead of everyone, I got to see one of their live shows at the Way Out West in Göteborg a few years ago and I was impressed. On the occasion of 20th anniversary of their album “Mezzanine”, the band started from digital audio files which then converted into 920,000 short DNA chains, thanks to the ETH Zurich laboratory: with this method the music is destined to be stored for hundreds of thousands of years.
To complete the work there will also be an art print by the band member and artist Robert Del Naja (considered by many to be the real face behind Banksy), made with an inkjet using the spray that contains DNA album. As he himself tells:
“The four DNA bases adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine are coded into binary digital audio. If you were to spray, scrape it off the wall and have it analysed in the correct conditions, you’d be able to play the album back, as soon the right player becomes available.”
The surprises will not end, meanwhile again Mezzanine on Spotify.
