The music needed to reflect the biological concept for the piece so I created four small motives that would act as cells, replicating themselves freely as the music grows. These motives layered on top of each other in various ways—resulting in a constantly shifting, cheerful, bouncing texture.

listen to the cells:
motive 1
motive 2
motive 3
motive 4

listen to the music:
Dancing DNA

Brendan Renne, a student of mine at Oberlin College, created a remix of Dancing DNA as a class project. I've included it here.
Spy Remix