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Listening to Mars is a piece created from recordings made on Mars by Nasa's Perseverance Rover. Microphones are sensors tuned to the human range of hearing which reach out into reality and collect data about the sound which is occurring in some geographic location. But what does this data mean in an atmosphere which is 95% CO2 and a fraction of the density of Earth's? 

Source Material:
Recording of Interspace Transit:
-This is a buzzing sound created by rover while it is in transit. This broad spectrum sound is transmitted through the solid materials of the rover.

First Recording of Martian Surface:
-This is the first recording made on Mars. It contains the sound of wind, the harmonic buzzing of the rover's electrical system, and squeaking and clatter of the rover while it is moving.

Recording of Mineral Testing:
-The Perseverance tests the hardness and composition of rocks on Mars using a laser which vaporizes the rock. A sensor then measures the sound of the explosion as well as other properties, like the particle content of the smoke, to learn more about the physical qualities of the Martian surface.  

Lithophone and Sampled sounds:
-Recordings I made of rocks sliding across one another.
-Single notes sampled from a vinyl record of Daniel Schmidt's "In My Arms Many Flowers"
-These are included because what we hear is formed by experiences, and all of our experiences with sound have happened on earth.

PrimeStorm Binaural

This is a recording of myself rolling a large burnt piece of drift wood down the beach through a stream, and into the ocean.

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