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Project Atom Tone explores aesthetic possibilities of sonification of atomic data and using generated complex waveforms in live electronic music. The result is 30min concert. Sonification is done in max/msp patch and development of the patch was a part of specific research during my Ph.D. studies at JAMU. The sonification has two parts: synthesis and modulation. Synthesis uses atomic spectroscopic data as a source for additive synthesis technique – each oscillator is tuned to recalculated exact frequency of the atomic emission spectral line. Each element has unique list of spectral line frequencies. This atomic " fingerprint " is audificated into the complex chord that is further modulated. Modulation is done only with numbers taken from Mendeleev periodic table related to selected element. Numbers can be routed to several parameters. This routing method is open to many possibilities. The goal of the project is to discover possible new aesthetic qualities for the contemporary electronic music with this specific sonification technique.