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Posted by michael on from the sound-of-silence dept.

KeelSpawn writes "CNN is running an article about "sounds in outer space", which begins: "University of Iowa astrophysicist Donald Gurnett first heard the sounds on a spacecraft in 1962 and it reminded him of music. The sounds, which resemble whistles, bird chirps and booms, would not be heard by someone in space but are picked up by sensitive radio equipment. The sounds will be blended into a performance this autumn by the Kronos Quartet when they play at Hancher Auditorium at the University of Iowa in Iowa City." The U. of Iowa has a page about the concert.

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  1. Re:Kronos Quartet? by ObviousGuy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or Kronos is a variant of Chronos who was the god of time.

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  2. Source of Some Space Sounds by laxian · · Score: 4, Informative
    Nice sounds from our magnetosphere: http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/mcgreevy/

    For live sounds, check out NASA's Online VLF Receiver

    These sounds were incorporated into a song by totally badass producer Si Begg:

    S.I. Futures - Ionic Funk

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  3. For budding djs by shomon2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or those wanting to do mixes of their own: http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~dag/sounds.html - the sounds page belonging to the professor who converted them to human audible... Please post mp3 conversions if you do any! Thanks

    Ale

  4. Re:Radio telescope music by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The composer you're thinking of is Alvin Lucier.

  5. Cool sounding stuff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Run "vlf recordings" through google and see what pops up. Lots of cool recordings.