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solaris variations

by raxil4

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astronomers at stanford university recorded acoustical pressure waves in the sun by carefully tracking movements on its surface with the michelson doppler imager on the SOHO spacecraft. acoustical waves bounce from one side of the sun to the other in about two hours, causing its surface to oscillate. these sound waves are normally at frequencies too low for the human ear to hear, so the scientists have sped up the waves 42,000 times and compressed 40 days of vibrations into a few seconds...

this piece was created using an old Four Track tape recorder and a three minute looping cassette featuring these sounds of the sun recorded at different speeds to create various pitches making a new playable instrument which was then fed through reverb...

this recording was part of anastasia freygang's hias oasis installation at the vienna art fair on october 11th 2013...
213h.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/entering-sound-in-vienna/

the instrument itself will be on display as part of an interactive installation in the GV art gallery noise & whispers exhibition from the 8th november - 14th december 2013... www.gvart.co.uk

photography by gordon c burns, check out more photos from the une nuit de bruit event...

gordoncburns.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/gig-photography-une-nuit-de-bruit/

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released September 27, 2013

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