Hello,
I am composer based in England, UK, and am currentlyworking on a new sound
installation, entitled aroundNorth, and based on a sonification of the
apparent movement of the stars around celestial north pole. Fabien Chéreau
suggested that I leave an email on the the developers mailing list to see if
anyone might be interested in lending me a hand with this project, hence
this email. The plan is that the finished audio piece will tour (to Dark
Sky events for outside performances) and there are also plans for a
permanent installation at the Armagh Observatory, in Northern Ireland.
The basic idea for the piece is for the rotating stars to act as a sort of
music box (or carillon) as they move past various points on their way around
the polar star. Depending on where they cross my sensor lines a different
musical note will sound that corresponds to selected astronomical
parameters, such as star size, brightness and distance from Earth, giving
voice to the stars and our changing perspective of them as the Earth
revolves on its axis. Different stars will also sound in accordance with a
harmonic translation of their spectra, and the whole piece will play in
synchronisation with the rotation of the earth, thus hopefully making a very
real connection between its listeners and the wider universe. A short movie
describing the concept can be found at:
<http://www.youtube.com/v/24kAfeBl0mo> http://www.youtube.com/v/24kAfeBl0mo
.
Although, so far, I have been working on aroundNorth by interpreting
internet available star catalogue data through the Kyma Music Computer
system, I was thinking that it could be good to (also) use the Stellarium
software for the basic tracking of the stars. One of the plans is also to
develop a musical app so that people have the facility to listen to sections
of the night sky through sound as well as though vision, and so I wondered
whether it might be possible to create something that uses the Stellarium
engine. In this case, for Stellarium users, what could be developed might
be an audio plug-in.
If anyone is interested in discussing this further, please do contact me. I
live in the South of England and so a local collaborator would be
preferable; however, this is not strictly necessary....
I can be reached at robertjar...@usa.net
Thanks,
Robert
www.robertjarvis.co.uk
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