Year

Title

Artist

Origin

Remarks

1968

Microbes Lyrics

George Harrison

UK

Instrumental piece in album Wonderwall music with Indian musicians. No clue to choice of lyrics title

A Very Cellular Song

Mike Heron of The Incredible String Band

UK

In album -The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter. The song tells a tale of amoebae

1970s

Can'bl Sel

Allan Bryant

UK

Album of 7 tracks on the intermix of phonetics with organic chemistry

1970s

Fatal Microbes

UK

Punk rock group of the 1970s. No clue to group name

The Germs

USA

Short-lived rock punk band of the 1970s. No clue to band name

1979     

Chain of Command

Andy Partridge of XTC

UK

Draws attention to the associative role of microbes

1989-2001

Ain't Gonna Be No Judgment Day

Stephen Baird

USA

All materials copy-righted by 2002 Scientific Gospel Productions (http://www.scientificgospel.com/)

1993

Goodbye Humanosaurus

Andy Partridge of XTC

UK

Predicts extinction of humans through their own use of "CFC's and germ-war microbes"

1997

DNA Music

USA

Student develops a school learning project in which music is created from DNA sequences (Miner, C. and Della Villa, P. DNA Music, The Science Teacher, May 1977, vol. 6, p. 19-212)

1998

Music for Microbes

Andreas Koepnick

Germany

Musicians use "virtual-reality glasses" with videotape "to observe single- celled microbes as a living score. - performance project with the chamber ensemble new music Berlin". Earlier works are: Microlives and virtual reality; slides; and The World Generator

2000

First of the Microbe Hunters

Stereolab

UK

Comprised of 7 tracks with no clue for choice of album title

2001

Microbes

Frieband

Holland

One of the many names used by Frans de Waard. Music composed of 12 tracks with no clue for choice of album title

Microbes and Peter Rabbit

Mark Belletini (Church Minister, Columbus, Ohio)

USA

Liturgical Materials comprised of opening words, readings, sermon and laudate dealing with lichens, symbiosis, etc. and the praise of life and its interconnections

Food Safety Music (some titles: We are the Microbes; Beat it)

Carl. Winter (see remarks)

USA

Songs about microbes based on popular tunes: We are the Champions by Queen and Beat It by Michael Jackson. Other lyrics deal with genetic modification, mad cow-disease; and still others have slide sets. Contact address: Carl Winter, Food Safe Program, Food Science and Technology Dept, University of California, One Shields Av, Davis, CA 95616-8598, USA. See also reviews in archives of USA Today, Harper's Magazine, Chicago Tribune, UC Davis Dateline)

2002-2003

Decomposers

Musically Aligned

USA

Provision of standards-based educational music

2003

The Inter- planetary, Collaborative Music Project (ICoMP)

The Extremophiles (see remarks)

USA

The musicians for the project on microbes in extreme environments (hence the name The Extremophiles): Commander Frank Schubert, Engineer /National Geographic correspondent Sam Burbank, NASA planetary scientist Kelly Snook, exobiologist Penny Boston, NASA space psychologist Ephimia Morphew, biologist/ engineer Steve Daniel. Space artist Michael Carroll creates album art for Soundtrack for a Mars Movie with 20 songs