Space

This recording was made by the SuperCam instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on Feb. 19, 2021, just about 18 hours after landing on the mission’s first sol or Martian day. The rover’s mast, holding the microphone, was still stowed on Perseverance’s deck, and so the sound is muffled, a little like the sound one hears listening to a seashell or having a hand cupped over the ear. Just a little wind can be heard.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/ISAE-Supaero

First Audio Recording of Sounds on Mars

This is the first acoustic recording of laser impacts on a rock target on Mars from March 2, 2021, the 12th sol (Martian day) from Perseverance’s SuperCam instrument. The sounds of 30 impacts are heard, some slightly louder than others. Variations in the intensity of the zapping sounds will provide information on the physical structure of the targets, such as its relative hardness or the presence of weathering coatings. The target, Máaz (“Mars” in Navajo), was about 10 feet (3.1 m) away.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/ISAE-Supaero

First Acoustic Recording of Laser Shots on Mars

Flow | 流れ  coming february 10th 2023 through Aguirre Records
PRE-ORDER digital here: https://dedren.bandcamp.com/album/flow
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Music By H.Takahashi and David Edren.
 Recorded 2020-2021 Tokyo|Antwerp.
 Mixed & Edited by David Edren at LittleForest, Antwerp. 
Mastered and cut by Anne Taegert at Dubplates & Mastering. 
Artwork by Vica Pacheco | Sleeve Design by Yudai Osawa.

Flow | 流れ

David Edren & H.Takahashi - Shift Register | シフトレジスタ

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Mercury 6: God Speed

Voyager 1's plasma wave instrument detected the vibrations of dense interstellar plasma, or ionized gas, from October to November 2012 and April to May 2013. This sound reproduces the amplitude and frequency of the plasma waves as "heard" by Voyager 1.

Voyager: Interstellar Plasma Sounds

taken from "3D-LS" 
https://mouseonmars.bandcamp.com/album/3d-ls

The Aural Gateway

IC 443 is a supernova remnant, or the debris of an exploded star, which astronomers have nicknamed the Jellyfish Nebula. A visual composite image of IC 443 includes X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (cyan) and German ROSAT X-ray telescope (blue) along with radio data from the NSF’s Very Large Array (green) and optical data from the Digitized Sky Survey (red). The sonification of IC 443 begins with a top-down scan as the brightness of the data is correlated to the volume of the sound. The sounds are mapped to colors in the image with red light being heard as lower pitches, the green as medium, and the blue light as the higher pitches. This creates notes that sweep up and down in pitch continuously. Several colors are isolated and control the volume of sustained tones with red controlling the lowest note and white controlling the highest note. The background stars in the optical image have been converted to water drop sounds in the sonification.

Credits: Images: Chandra X-ray: NASA/CXC/B.Gaensler et al; ROSAT X-ray: NASA/ROSAT/Asaoka & Aschenbach; Radio: NRC/DRAO/D.Leahy; Optical: DSS; Sonification: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

Chandra/ROSAT/VLA/DSS IC 443 (Jellyfish) Sonification

Recently recorded during post-installation testing using only samples from the Hideaway AKAI S612 Sample Library currently bundled with the popular XD-280 Disk Emulator I developed a few years back. The XD-280 consists of a modified Gotek disk emulator and a custom drive interface which bolts directly onto the rear of the S612 replacing the bulky and sadly very unreliable original MD-280 Quick-Disk Rackmount with a modern USB flash drive based solution.

These 12-bit samplers might only have a tiny 1 second sample memory but they sound lovely and, in a weird way, I often find their extreme limitations quite inspiring!

Sound Design, Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2025.

1986 AKAI S612: Heavenly-01 [Hideaway's Sample Library For XD-280]

Secede's remix of Peepuntpopkema.

From the forthcoming album Dubio.
Pre-order on digital, LP and CD here:https://kettel.bandcamp.com/album/dubio

Peepuntpopkema Secede Remix

From "Dubio", releasing on march 24th: https://kettel.bandcamp.com/album/dubio

Arpa Ingrata

Exclusive track premiere for igloomag.com
Proem "Pine the Bear" from the new album 'Until Here For Years'
w/ approval from n5MD

More info:
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Until Here for Years (n5MD) MP3

Proem "Pine the Bear"

Hello, we’re NASA. You may have seen our astronauts, rocket launches, or Mars rovers — but have you heard our sounds? From interviews with astronauts and engineers to stories that take you on a tour of the galaxy, NASA’s audio offerings let you experience the thrill of space exploration without ever leaving Earth.

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