[NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-25 Thread marc garrett
Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music. By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News. Scientists have recorded the sound of three stars similar to our Sun using France's Corot space telescope. The subtly pulsating, haunting sounds are very similar to artist Aphex Twin's

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-27 Thread Vijay Pattisapu
This is beautiful. Reminds me of Pythagoras's notion of sidereal harmonics, medievals' music of the spheres, Boethius's musica universalis, Kepler's harmonice mundi, etc. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st but in his motion like an angel sings. Shakespeare Vijay 2008/10/25 marc

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-27 Thread marc garrett
Hi Vijay, I agree, it is profound stuff beautiful... marc This is beautiful. Reminds me of Pythagoras's notion of sidereal harmonics, medievals' music of the spheres, Boethius's musica universalis, Kepler's harmonice mundi, etc. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st but in his

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-27 Thread aymeric mansoux
marc garrett said : Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music. By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News. Scientists have recorded the sound of three stars similar to our Sun using France's Corot space telescope. The subtly pulsating, haunting sounds are very

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-27 Thread brian gibson
wow a million thank yous On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:21 PM, aymeric mansoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: marc garrett said : Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music. By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News. Scientists have recorded the sound of three stars

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-28 Thread bob catchpole
Some years ago, as part of a medical project to spot newborn babies that might be deaf, recordings were made of the sound of a womb and played back to the babies on tiny headphones. Those without hearing problems responded to the recording with unmistakable recognition. As I recall, the medical

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-29 Thread marc garrett
Hi Bob, That's pretty interesting - what do you think it means in respect of them sounding similar? marc Some years ago, as part of a medical project to spot newborn babies that might be deaf, recordings were made of the sound of a womb and played back to the babies on tiny headphones.

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-29 Thread Simon Biggs
A precursor sound work. http://somerecords.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/charles-dodge-earths-magnetic-fi eld-1970/ Regards Simon On 29/10/08 13:51, marc garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bob, That's pretty interesting - what do you think it means in respect of them sounding similar?

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-29 Thread Simon Biggs
And another from 1962 http://bp1.blogger.com/_ORjFf0-b4k4/SE0BCTud_0I/B70/TVBibKz7gqc/s160 0-h/Folder.jpg Regards Simon On 29/10/08 13:51, marc garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bob, That's pretty interesting - what do you think it means in respect of them sounding similar?

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-29 Thread marc garrett
mmm... hearing all the sounds brings about temptation to remix them and make remixes out of them, turn them into a audio/visual album marc And another from 1962 http://bp1.blogger.com/_ORjFf0-b4k4/SE0BCTud_0I/B70/TVBibKz7gqc/s160 0-h/Folder.jpg Regards Simon On 29/10/08 13:51,

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-29 Thread Simon Biggs
Resist it ­ the 60¹s had their moments already! ;) Regards Simon On 29/10/08 14:27, marc garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mmm... hearing all the sounds brings about temptation to remix them and make remixes out of them, turn them into a audio/visual album marc And another from 1962

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-29 Thread marc garrett
Well, I've got enough projects on the go, perhaps I could hold back a little ;-* marc Resist it ­ the 60¹s had their moments already! ;) Regards Simon On 29/10/08 14:27, marc garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mmm... hearing all the sounds brings about temptation to remix them and

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-29 Thread bob catchpole
Marc, Facing the cosmos, human understanding remains puny, no? Why would a womb and a star have sonic similarities? What is being recorded anyway? Maybe one distant day there will be an answer?... Bob From: marc garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 29

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-29 Thread Simon Biggs
They are sonically similar because they are recording very different phenomena using effectively the same encoding system. As such the perceived similarity is a function of the code, not the phenomena. There is no need to assume that everything in the cosmos is connected in some manner simply

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-29 Thread bob catchpole
I didn't expect the answer so soon!... I think you're right. Yet maybe there's also something else going on. It's hard to define, but we all carry a distant buried memory of our first sonic environment, the womb. What is it? The babies who recognised the recording fell asleep peacefully... (the

Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.

2008-10-29 Thread helen varley jamieson
obviously the womb is the universe ... h ; ) bob catchpole wrote: I didn't expect the answer so soon!... I think you're right. Yet maybe there's also something else going on. It's hard to define, but we all carry a distant buried memory of our first sonic environment, the womb. What is it?