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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Just for fun: Music of the Universe


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:

2 comments:

  1. Hm, interesting, but it doesn't sound like the next thing anyone will be listening to at the opera.

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  2. I second that. Though to be fair, I haven't heard the entire piece.

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