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 others didn't)... What were they responding to? Sound? Pulse? Space?...
Bob ________________________________ From: Simon Biggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 29 October, 2008 19:30:53 Re: [NetBehaviour] Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music.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 because our capacity to represent these things is so limited. Regards Simon On 29/10/08 17:22, "bob catchpole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 October, 2008 14:51:27 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. Those without hearing problems responded to > the recording with unmistakable recognition. As I recall, the medical team's > recording of the sound of the womb was strikingly similari to the recordings > of these stars... > > Bob > > > > > ________________________________ > From: brian gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 1:39:51 > > > 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 similar to our Sun >> using France's Corot space telescope. >> >> The subtly pulsating, haunting sounds are very similar to artist Aphex >> Twin's minimalistic nineties album 'Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2,' >> only stripping away what little melody it had and leaving just the beat. >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7687286.stm >> > > Reminds me of Lustmord > > He used such sounds in 94 as material for an album "ARECIBO/Trans > Plutonian Transmissions" > http://www.discogs.com/release/114042 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory#Arecibo_in_popular_culture > > nice one if you like darkambient. > > a. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ________________________________ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.littlepig.org.uk AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201
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