Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart is working on a musical project called ‘Rhythms of the Universe’, whose intent is to ‘sonify’ the universe. To that end, he collaborated with George Smoot and Keith Jackson, both from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to translate electromagnetic data coming from a supernova into music.
Here’s a sample:
Hm, interesting, but it doesn't sound like the next thing anyone will be listening to at the opera.
ReplyDeleteI second that. Though to be fair, I haven't heard the entire piece.
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