A new collection of work titled 'Sodium Light' from myself has just been released on Lee Norris's excellent NeoTantra label. The work was inspired by a series of night walks my daughter and I took towards the back end of 2019; pre all the states we find ourselves in at the moment. It's an impressionistic work of night-time cityscapes. Mastered by Fraser McGowan.

Sodium Light

Night #6

'Night #6' - Taken from the release 'Sodium Light' - [Neotantra, 2021]

A sonification of data recorded by the Italian Spring Accelerometer (ISA) aboard the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter spacecraft during the flyby of Venus on 10 August 2021. The accelerometer data was converted to frequency to be made audible to the human ear. The audio clip represents a period of two hours, one hour either side of the close approach to Venus, which took place at 13:51:54 UTC at a distance of 552 km from the planet’s surface. The sounds reflect the rapid change in reaction wheel velocity as the spacecraft felt the gravity of the planet, and the huge changes in temperature in the spacecraft structure.

Read more: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Sights_and_sounds_of_a_Venus_flyby

Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/ISA/ASI-INAF, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Sound of a close Venus flyby

A simple sonification of the variability of the total magnetic field during BepiColombo’s second Venus flyby as measured by the Mercury Planetary Orbiter’s Magnetometer (OB sensor). 

The audio spans the same time range 12:00 to 14:30 UTC on 10 August 2021, including the closest approach at 13:51 UTC. 

Almost all high frequency noises are due to spacecraft activity. The low frequency, wind-like noises are caused by the solar wind and its interaction with Venus. The sudden bow shock crossing towards the end can be heard clearly. The data is not yet cleaned from high pitch spacecraft disturbances, but the wind-like sounds allow a rare glimpse into the solar wind interaction with a planetary atmosphere.

What is heard is the 128 Hz measurement of the high-pass filtered (0.01 Hz) total magnetic field, mapped to audio with 44.1 kHz sampling frequency. For better audibility some compression, limiting and increase in gain is applied to the signal.

Read more: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Sights_and_sounds_of_a_Venus_flyby

Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MPO-MAG/IGEP-IWF-IC-ISAS

BepiColombo - Mission to Mercury

The sound of the solar wind at Venus

On Episode 238, Daniel Lockney reviews some of the most fascinating NASA technologies that have made their way into our everyday lives.

Houston We Have a Podcast: From Space to You

a few soundscapes i've made with Luftrum's wonderful kontakt instrument Bioscape. i used customized samples: field recordings and synthesized sounds to create these immersive and surreal sound landscapes. https://www.luftrum.com/bioscape/

Bioscape Arovane Soundscapes

artist: many pretty blooms
title: bow & clatter
catalog: eR008
release date: 30th of july 2022

release type: album
series: eRecords digital series
playing speed: 33 1/3 rpm

written and produced by john wilkins
mastered by james edward armstrong
cover photo by john wilkins
art and design by harry towell
whitelabrecs.com/erecord-series/

eRecords are a series of digital editions which aim to transform the digital format into something that can be experienced in a similar way to a listener’s interaction with a real, whitelabel vinyl record. Each edition includes a special PDF scrapbook including polaroids and liner notes and you will only be able to find out more about the themes and ideas about each record, once you’ve downloaded them.

Bow & Clatter

eR008 many pretty blooms - spurious realities

Rest of Life

The Knowing Place

This audio is the air compressor for MOXIE pumping air on Mars. MOXIE was launched aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover to test a technology for extracting oxygen from the Red Planet’s carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere. 
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CNES/IRAP

MOXIE's Air Compressor Pumping Away on Mars

lyrics : 

tout les soirs 
jss bloqué avk ma peine
jsuis dans la ville 
avec le gang on fait la paire
j’ai ma claymore , j’ai ma gunblade
pour les démons et les fakes 
les salopes ou les traîtres 
quand ces pussy sont pas là 
avec mes rats on fait la fête *2
tant de démons autours de moi 
g du mal à garder ma tête 
les démons sont vla sur moi 
et ils me disent de fr ma quête 
anh anh 
tt ces démons autours de moi 
ils mprennent la tête de puis des mois
jss constamment dans l’effroi 
c’est infernal jcrois jperds la foi
avec tt ces démons autours de moi 
jveux être en paix ouais juste une fois

les démons autour de moi (untaeq)

By Daniel Wytanis

The musicians for NASA Explorers: Apollo took inspiration from science fiction, Apollo audio from the NASA archives and the excitement surrounding NASA’s upcoming human exploration of the Moon with the Artemis program.

Tycho's Daydream - From the soundtrack to “NASA Explorers: Apollo”

ESA’s Cluster mission has recorded the magnetic waves generated in the magnetic foreshock above Earth – the first region of our planet’s magnetic environment that solar wind particles encounter – during calm space weather conditions. This audio file contains a 'sonification' of the data, where sounds were obtained by transforming the frequencies of these magnetic waves into audible signals.

Read the full story on ESA's website: http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Earth_s_magnetic_song_recorded_for_the_first_time_during_a_solar_storm

Credit: ESA/Cluster; M. Archer, Queen Mary University of London – CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Earth’s magnetic 'song' during calm space weather conditions

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