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Listen... to what the plasma people say

...and they say "beebopterismo"

I saw over on bOINGbOING that our friends at the University of Iowa have mapped musical tones to space radiation, giving you the opportunity to "listen" to space. I've seen projects like this before on the droneon list, but what seems unique to me, is Terry Riley and the Kronos Quartet have created a musical composition based on space noises, which is being performed live tomorrow in Iowa City.

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. "Beebopterismo" comes just before movements named "Planet Elf Sindoori" and "Earth Whistlers," Riley said.

Here's bOINGbOING's writeup of the event.

Posted by McChris at October 25, 2002 05:01 PM
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