Stellar Seismologists Record "Music" From Stars

niktemadur writes "The BBC reports that a French team of stellar seismologists, using the COROT Space Telescope, have converted stellar oscillations into sound patterns, a relatively new technique that, according to Professor Eric Michel of the Paris Observatory, is already giving researchers new insight into the inner workings of stars. The subtly pulsating, haunting sounds are very similar to artist Aphex Twin's minimalistic nineties album 'Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2,' only stripping away what little melody it had and leaving just the beat. These and many more recordings from space can be accessed at the Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics website, also known as the Jodcast."

Re:Beat?

[owlnation]

It's pretty much impossible to produce music without a beat (rhythm). Even Cage's 4 minutes and 33 seconds probably has a beat most of the time. Without beat it would also be monotone. Every time you introduce a new tone there's a beat. That beat maybe far apart from another, and it may be irregular, but it's there. It doesn't need drums and a 4/4 progression to have a beat.

Re:Ancient theory proven

[night_flyer]

goes back slightly further back than that...

Job 38:7 (King James Version)

  7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Nobody remembers Dr. Fiorella Terenzi?

[Master of Transhuman]

From Wikipedia:

Dr. Fiorella Terenzi is an Italian astrophysicist, author and musician who is best known for taking recordings of radio waves from galaxies and turning them into music. She received her doctorate from the University of Milan but is currently based in the United States.

Terenzi is known for her CD-ROM Invisible Universe which combines music and poetry with astronomy lessons, and for a sexually charged 1998 book about science entitled Heavenly Knowledge. She has also released a number of albums of her music.

She is known as an Apple Computer "AppleMaster", and has collaborated with the likes of Thomas Dolby, Timothy Leary, Herbie Hancock and Ornette Coleman.

When she isn't performing, she teaches astronomy at Pierce College in Los Angeles. As of 2006, she was teaching astronomy at Brevard Community College in Cocoa, FL.

Home Page: http://www.fiorella.com/fiorprofile.htm [fiorella.com]

Videos: http://video.fiorella.com/ [fiorella.com]