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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sat Jan 25, 2014, 04:38 PM Jan 2014

The sound of space: Voyager provides music from solar system and beyond

In space, no one can hear you scream – but the void isn’t quite as silent as you might think.

Cosmic particles populate the emptiness of space, and while they make no sound in the conventional sense, their speeding paths can be translated into sounds we can hear.

Now Domenico Vicinanza, a project manager at Géant – Europe’s high-speed data network that powers Cern and the Large Hadron Collider among other things – has taken 37 years of data sent back from deep space by Nasa’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts, and turned it into music.

A duet, separated by billions of kilometres

Vicinanza used 320,000 measurements collected at one-hour intervals by the cosmic ray detector aboard each spacecraft to build a musical piece, tying different detections to different frequencies of note.

Different groups of instruments and sound textures were used to given each of the two different spacecraft - which are separated by billions of kilometres of space – a unique musical voice producing a duet from deep space.

more, with music (wonderful)
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/22/space-voyager-music-solar-system

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The sound of space: Voyager provides music from solar system and beyond (Original Post) n2doc Jan 2014 OP
I especially like the cello part. longship Jan 2014 #1
Needs more cowbell Mika Jan 2014 #2
I loved it and shared with the Bieber people..Bwahahaha...n/t monmouth3 Jan 2014 #3
Vger's merely looking for its creator... Cooley Hurd Jan 2014 #4
The universe is made up of YankeyMCC Jan 2014 #5
It put me to sleep; Perhaps I should save it for that purpose! PDJane Jan 2014 #6
This is absolutely fantastic. Vashta Nerada Jan 2014 #7
It puts me in mind of a Bach Fugue. NCarolinawoman Jan 2014 #8

longship

(40,416 posts)
1. I especially like the cello part.
Sat Jan 25, 2014, 05:15 PM
Jan 2014

As everybody knows, There's always room for cello.

Reminds me of minimalism, Philip Glass or John Adams.

R&K

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