If your idea of space music is the “2001” score, you’ve got it all wrong. New flute solo mines data for notes.
Raw data used by researchers typically sounds a bit different than the melodic music that Vicinanza created. Voyager 1′ssounds like radio static mixed in with periodic whistling — eerie tones that Hollywood would probably utilize as alien noises. The whistling grew louder and higher pitched as Voyager 1 progressed, suggesting the interstellar medium was getting thicker quickly.
When Ocker listened to Vicinanza’s piece, she said she loved how the composition captured what Voyager 1 experienced on both long and short time scales. It showed the overall increase in electron density as well as lower-level persistent variations. The performance also “really emphasizes that constant sense of motion, that Voyager is ever pressing onwards,” said Ocker, a Ph.D. candidate in astronomy at Cornell University.
Vicinanza employs a similar technique in his pieces, at times essentially superimposing waveform data across musical bars as his starting point. His goal is to create the right mapping between data and rhythms that “can tell a story without sacrificing the scientific rigorIn some cases, nature’s patterns align with known musical approaches. For example, the new Voyager 1 musical piece actually presented traditional chord patterns common in Western music.
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