...an LHC Symphony?
Domenico Vicinanza
Monday, 05 October 2009 16:57 UTC
There is an idea (which is also a little dream) I am having since a while.
Data sonification is one of the most interesting way to extract richness and beauty from scientific data and convert them into something listenable.
I explored data sonification to create music for dance performances from volcanoes rumbles (http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1001752), concerts from oxygen level in the water, now something different is really intriguing me.
The idea I hope to do sometime is creating an “open LHC symphony”, a big sonification-based music piece, which will start when the LHC accelerator starts, transforming into sounds the data from the first collisions.
I was also thinking of leaving it open, adding pieces and parts as soon as interesting events are produced (new particles being discovered, special interactions and collisions).
The symphony will be then a kind of continuous, live soundtrack of the accelerators and its experiments, followings emotions, discoveries, sensations.
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I think this is a fascinating idea — taking data from the LHC restart, and transforming it into musical form. For those of you who are not aware of this, Domenico also created the “Lost Sounds Orchestra,” which uses grid computing to recreate the sounds of ancient, lost musical instruments. (iSGTW did a couple of stories on this work, in September 08 and later in August of this year.)
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On a related note, today’s Guardian has a story on a computer program called Emily (“Experiments in Musical Intelligence”), that can create original compositions of contemporary classical music.
The article says that a music professor at the University of California/Santa Cruz, named David Cope, created the machine after almost four decades’ work.
As for what the critics think, read here
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