Space music: Aeolian harps and solar sound boxes

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Aeolian harp at burning man (eccentric Jeff/Creative Commons).

Is our Sun a musician? Yes, it can from sounds bust, if you give it an instrument or way his rhythms and pulses in the audible sound design, (discussed in this post space music) convert. But what happens when this type of G-type main sequence dwarf with one other musical heavyweight teams? Nope, I am talking not about Jay-Z. We are talking about the Earth's atmosphere.

Yep, the atmosphere. You can work on the 1972 album "the wind harp - song of the Hill," remember, which featured the music of a 30-foot (9.1 m) Aeolian harp. Named for Aeolus, the God of the wind, this old Greek invention essentially is a harp played by the wind.

When air dozen-or-so passes five-foot strings over the Aeolian harp, is a haunting, ambient ARIA generates. Here's a taste:

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So how come the Sun on the making of the music? This is where is sound artist Craig Colorusso. The Massachusetts-based artist designed a 20-piece orchestra of solar-powered speakers. How in this PBS interview telling, the original concept fairly simple technology dependent. Here is an excerpt, is followed by audio and video:

"It has driven independently, operating each 20 speakers, from the Sun through solar panels included." Within each Sun-box is a PC card, which a recorded guitar note loaded and programmed to continuously in a loop play has. This guitar notes together to make a BB chord. "Because the loops in length, are different, as soon as the piece starts they overlap constantly developed, and the piece slowly over the course of time."

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Wrapped only a three day performance at the Indianapolis Museum of art, but in any case your way to experience this piece when it comes to your way go Colorusso's Sun boxes. I find that it is beautifully illustrated the complex relationship between

Let us out, things with a strong room DJ, close, shall we? I recommend the work of Britain's Bitesize beats. His excellent hour-Ling mixture of space-themed tracks, "come with us now on a journey through time and space..." has unfortunately disappeared from the face of the Internet, but find a number of cosmic tracks on his official page cloud of sound. Start with "Moon Boots."

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