Abstract
A ‘Mezzanine’ for the millennia According to etiquette, the modern gift for a 20th anniversary is made from platinum. Legendary trip-hop group Massive Attack might suggest a more avant-garde presentation: DNA. The musicians are marking two decades since the debut of their most celebrated album, “Mezzanine,” by storing the audio in DNA molecules. Storing the album’s data in DNA is no small feat; Massive Attack enlisted ETH Zurich professor Robert Grass and colleagues to translate the digital code to a biological one. Because storing a CD-quality version of Mezzanine would cost nearly $500,000, Grass and his colleagues compressed the file size to 15 megabytes—a quality that would sound good on your laptop speakers but diminish on a hi-fi system. “The idea here is really to have the essence of the music captured,” to store it in perpetuity, Grass tells Newscripts. Even with a compressed file, encoding the album data will
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