

NASA Music Out of This World 64
Koyaanisqatsi writes "With detection instruments on NASA's Voyagers, Galileo, Cassini and other spacecraft, University of Iowa physicist Dr. Don Gurnett recorded waves that course through outer space. Gurnett converted the plasma waves into sounds which inspired a 10-movement musical composition called "Sun Rings." Sample the sounds from Galileo, Voyager and Cassini. (Full Story)"
Great (Score:5, Funny)
I doubt they will sue (Score:1)
Anyway, they really should rethink their whole business model. Going after their customers with beam weapons is just plain stupid.
In space... (Score:5, Funny)
That's odd (Score:5, Funny)
and then (Score:3, Funny)
kthxbye~!
Re:and then (Score:3, Funny)
If it wasn't for you guys, we'd have to put up with them here. The US is the Botany Bay of the Canadian Entertainment Industry!
Avril* (Score:1)
Re:Avril* (Score:1)
Recursive! (Score:1)
10-movement musical composition called "Sun Rings. (Score:5, Funny)
"Sun Rings" and Beebopterismo (Score:2)
Riley listened carefully to some crackling and squealing patterns from the magnetic field the Galileo spacecraft discovered surrounding Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. "It sounded to me like a voice saying, 'beebopterismo,' so that's the starting point for one of the movements," he said.
I think someone's been reading a little too much of the Ringworld series.
Too much LDS in the sixties (Score:2)
At the beginning, I think that was Qo'noS exploding or something. Spilled tea all over my tunic.
Re:Too much LDS in the sixties (Score:1)
Thats not space (Score:5, Funny)
cat
The best part (Score:5, Funny)
bah. (Score:2, Funny)
But not by much.
astronomical percussion music (Score:4, Interesting)
See the circus S [circus-s.de] site.
(Oh, actually, the composer is called
Gérard Grisey and the piece Le Noir de l'Etoile (1989/90))
OT: "Full story" link (Score:1)
some crackling and squealing patterns (Score:3, Funny)
This guy should come over to the playground in my neighbourhood, he'll be able to record a lot of music! Beebopterismo's, hiphopterismo's, as much as he likes, and not to forget... the swing!!
Seems like... (Score:1)
Does anyone else... (Score:1)
...hear the aliens saying something about 'going to pick up L. Ron and his mates' in that when they play it backwards? Man, they're going to be pissed when they find that he's dead.
A CD has been out for years. (Score:3, Interesting)
Anyway, some sounds like whales, other parts sound like choirs from the movie 2001.
Re:A CD has been out for years. (Score:2)
Good Taste (Score:1)
Okay, I just don't get why this is interesting... (Score:1)
Re:Okay, I just don't get why this is interesting. (Score:3, Insightful)
If.. (Score:3, Funny)
Sample the sounds from Galileo, Voyager and Cassini and now featuring Lance Bass!
mp3 (Score:1)
It's been done (Score:4, Informative)
Re:It's been done (Score:2)
Ham Radio (Score:3, Interesting)
Those sound bites remind me of what I used to listen to as a kid. Music to my ears!
sound of windows (Score:1)
Previous Story (Score:4, Informative)
Kronos Quartet (Score:2, Interesting)
This was down thirty years ago... (Score:4, Interesting)
Danger, NASA at work (Score:2)
NASA had a huge brain drain in the early 1970s, when Apollo wound down, and never recovered. It's sad.
Whale songs? (Score:4, Funny)
Your tax dollars at work (Score:1)
As long as we haven't covered the more important aspects of governmental responsibilities, like health insurance and flying to Mars, I'm deeply troubled by this - especially in view of the re-started deficit spending of the US.
Science is about discovery (Score:2)
Even if discoveries like sounds in space are never applied, it gets the public interested in science. It might even inspire young minds to accomplish great works someday. Such was the case of a simple beeping noise in 1957 from Sputnik.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit200210
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20
Noise vs. Signal (Score:2, Informative)
Just as we cannot see outside the visible spectrum, we cannot hear plasma sound waves, which are mainly detected by electromagnetic antennae. But these sounds are just as informative about what is going on in our solar system as the Gamma, Xray or UV images that are brought back from space.
For example, there is a steady rumble from the roiling solar atmosphere, which expands supersonically throughout the solar system. And when a spacecraft crosses a shock wave (upstream of all the planets), there is a huge sonic boom. Lightening and auroras produce a wide variety of sounds.
So try to think of these sounds as having been recorded in the GREAT outdoors, and ask yourself what you might be hearing. One person's noise is another person's signal!
More space sounds (Score:2)