I'm going to talk about something much more interesting: Space
Here's a setpiece contributed from NASA and supplied by our good friend Saturn:
Wierd huh? It's a "recording" of radio waves emitted by the planet and converted to noise via computer software. It's not alone either:
Now here's the wierd one:
Now what' you're hearing for the Earth one is the summation of electronic transmission.Whenever we bounce radio waves off satellites(IE: All electronic messaging over long distances), there's a runoff which continues on into space(Note: This is the concept SETI works with, just in reverse). This miasma is what was intercepted and reconverted back into sound and put in the video. So going off the Sound Ecology concept of HiFi->LoFi that Dr.Langguth mentioned, how much of this is our own cause and how much is the Earth? Going off the Cage point of view that mirrors Positive Aesthetics, can you find value in these noises when they're only noises by artificial intervention?
That is awesome - Saturn sounds like the soundtrack to a creepy alien movie, Jupiter first sounds like a symphony but becomes really mysterious, Uranus almost sounds like nature (birds chirping, leaves rustling, water flowering, etc), and Earth sounds like jets or an airplane in the sky. Bizarre.
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome. I never realized that planets made noise and that their noise carried throughout space. It makes me wonder if we can pick up noises from far away planets, and if so would we be able to tell if life or machine or whatever lived on that specific planet. They said they have found planets that are potential to carry life so maybe we should just take a listen to their sounds and see what we get from that. Hell, maybe we can find a talking planet...whoa.
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