Microbial music: Christine Lavin and the Amoeba Hop

Always searching for science-art-music combinations.  Especially ones that focus on some aspect of science I work on, like microbes. And, well, though this recording is less than ideal, and you need to wait a minute and a half or so, once you get to the song it is worth it.

The song is "The Amoeba Hop" and the singer is the brilliant Christine Lavin.



I have had this song in my head on and off for years and wanted to post about it for a while.  I finally remembered to Google it tonight after reading a tweet about combining music and biology.  I used to listen to Lavin all the time in college and even went to a show of hers in 1989 in Ft. Collins, CO with my brother and my friend Saul Jacobson.  As a side note - we saw Lavin at some music hall type of place the the night after seeing Killdozer at a VFW post.  As a second side note - the Killdozer show was crazy (and I even found someone else who wrote about it here).

Anyway - not only did I find the video posted above but I discovered she wrote a book in 2002 based on the song - and the book even got a review in the New York Times.   Gonna probably have to get that book at some point ...