Elements 35: Bromine
The music series of the Halogens is colorful, using mosaics as a formal principle, reflecting the eagerness of halogens to chemically combine and form both salts and organic molecules. Bromine is important in biochemistry, which is demonstrated in the application of KBr Potassium Bromide as an anti-epileptic medicine from 1857-1912, when it was replaced by phenobarbital. The music of these halogens expresses the connection to biochemistry by its use of rhythmic elements and its special treatment of musical time (hence also the virtual modeling and mosaic form).
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