Walker Smith is a “musical chemist” (or perhaps music alchemist), whose research and creative work focuses on the scientific, educational, and musical possibilities of translating chemical data into sound and making molecular music. He earned a dual degree in chemistry and composition from Indiana University Bloomington, where he developed “The Sound of Molecules” – a multimedia music and science show that he has performed for thousands of people in the USA and Europe. As part of a Fulbright scholarship in the Netherlands, he developed the “Interactive Musical Periodic Table,” a project that was presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society and received over 50 international media reports. Walker has been a guest researcher at the Ligeti Zentrum in Hamburg and the Intangible Realities Laboratory in Santiago de Galicia, and has presented and performed his work at AudioMostly, NYCEMF, ICMC, ICAD, and SMC. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, and his favorite color is purple.