Sonification of LHC data collected by the experiment ALICE for FT Weekend.

Credits: Sonification and orchestration: Domenico Vicinanza (DANTE, www.dante.net). 
Data courtesy of the ALICE collaboration at CERN (www.cern.ch). 

Sonification run on the GEANT (www.geant.net) network through EGI (www.egi.eu). Sonfication support: Mariapaola Sorrentino, Giuseppe La Rocca (INFN-Catania,www.ct.infn.it)


Sonification of LHC data

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