Traditional / experimental practice
The Sound of the Universe · A Star's Light
The star RR Lyrae in the constellation Lyra brightens and fades about every 13.6 hours. In the Kepler space telescope's 2009 measurements the cycle comes out at 0.567 days; in this part each cycle was fitted into four seconds and the brightness was turned into the brightness of the sound, its timbre: as the star brightens the sound opens, as it fades the sound darkens. The way the peaks vary from cycle to cycle (the Blazhko effect) is the data itself. This is a sonification, not a recording from space: data or measured numbers were turned into sound with a stated mapping. There is no claim of any effect.
Liner notes
- Body
- Cluster drone · 165 Hz
- What do you hear?
- tonal · continuous · narrow
How is this sound made?
- Cluster drone−14 dB
Cluster drone · root 165 Hz, 2 oscillators
- Reverb: room, 12% mix
In the room you can listen to each layer on its own, change its settings and save it as your own recipe.
Sound is generated on this device in real time; no files are downloaded from a server. There is a 8 s fade-in at the start and a 0 min fade-out at the end.
Compare with another sound
Hear both at the same loudness; drag the slider to the middle and they blend.
These two sounds can't share one recipe (different tuning or effects): listen to the samples one after the other.
What do we know, what don't we know?
S · Soundscape, no claim
No health or mental-effect claim at all; it is simply a soundscape.
This session isn't linked to any claim of effect.
A session's level is the weakest of its linked claims; it is never raised by a strong but unrelated claim.
Its neighbours on the map
The five sounds closest to this one by measured sound features.
- 1Solfeggio 396 Hz · Pure ToneBright · steady · no melodyBoth tone and drone · both steady · same goal: explore
- 2Solfeggio 417 Hz · Pure ToneBright · steady · no melodyBoth tone and drone · both steady · same goal: explore
- 3Chakra · Ground · The Sound of TouchWarm · textured · closeSame goal: explore
- 4Solfeggio 174 Hz · Pure ToneWarm · steady · no melodyBoth tone and drone · both steady · same goal: explore
- 5Solfeggio 741 Hz · Pure ToneBright · steady · no melodyBoth tone and drone · both steady · same goal: explore
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