Space Music

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.

Comments

Uh oh

[Glint]

Imagine that the only transmission from Earth that makes it to some alien civilization is this concert, and they disregard it as background noise.

Tragic.

- Adam

2001

[Ilan Volow]

And to think for years I thought the background noise of space was complete and total silence interspersed with Strauss' Blue Danube Waltz. Damn you, Stanley Kubrick!

Source of Some Space Sounds

[laxian]

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

For budding djs

[shomon2]

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

There's a key difference in their works

[robolemon]

John Cage: 4 minutes and 33 seconds

This song: 4 minutes (right ascension) and 33 light-seconds