Name: Golden Record: The First Tools by NASA
Duration: 14 s
Description: This is a sound that was electronically placed onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.

Between Earth and the Sun, space is not truly empty but is filled with a soup of charged particles called plasma. This plasma comes from the Sun, pumped out in a steady stream called the solar wind and sporadically blasted away in explosive solar eruptions. When this solar plasma strikes Earth, it causes the magnetic field lines and plasma around Earth to vibrate like the plucked strings of a harp, producing ultralow-frequency waves.

In 2007, NASA launched five satellites to fly through Earth’s magnetic “harp” – its magnetosphere – as part of the THEMIS mission (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms). Since then, THEMIS has been gathering a bounty of information about plasma waves across Earth’s magnetosphere. 

The frequencies of the waves THEMIS measures are too low for our ears to hear, however. So a NASA citizen science project called HARP – or Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas – has sped up the waves recorded by THEMIS to convert them to sound waves.

In this clip from June 10-11, 2009, whistle sounds are repeatedly heard over ambient background whooshes and crunches and a few high-pitch chirps. The whistles change in pitch as a THEMIS spacecraft moves toward and away from Earth on one orbit, with a maximum altitude of about 50,000 miles. These sounds are related to Earth’s magnetic harp, which has longer magnetic strings and lower pitches farther away from Earth. The high-pitch chirps are related to high-frequency plasma waves that are smaller than the harp waves yet can have an outsized impact on Earth’s radiation belts and space weather.

High-Pitch Chirps and Earth’s Magnetic Harp

StudioJam020923 with some new ‘friends’: ´Flux´ by ioLabs is sequencing ; ´Odessa’ (Xaoc Devices). Also nice delay effects with “Basil” (Bastl Instruments) and other soundscapes (recorded modular sounds with Ableton) in background.

please check the video on my channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgK7ImOHGM4

UnusualEncounter II

Birds sing and the valley cries
A vaguely blurry peach dream
Grasses get wet after the spring rain

鳥が囀り谷が鳴く
ぼんやりとした桃の夢
雨立ち上り草濡れる

Congrats to the 10th Anniversary of Naviar ! 
Thanks for the inspirations from the Naviar Haiku Fest.. and now come to this place again for naviarhaiku530 

An another experimental hypnotic track inspired from the poem of spring rain by kobayashi issa - mixed with the humbled profound Taiko drums from the liveset at Naviar Haiku Fest in Tokyo 2024- a kind of tribute track for the 10th anniversary of Naviar's long journey :) 

taking it easy
the mouse sleeps too...
spring rain

Haiku : Kobayashi Issa
Music : Nukumori Eugene / Nx  https://a-tale-of.bandcamp.com/
IG: www.instagram.com/jinsei_books

Spring Rain - 春雨  [naviarhaiku530]

overneath

release on 28 February 2025 : www.wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com
@mythudunitearea

MTUA is the moniker of Matthieu Reynaud, a composer and sound artist based in Lyon. He is an enthusiast of long, contemplative forms, he works on the physicality of sound matter, carving out its contours and striving to breathe his own narrative into it.

MTUA - Crown shyness

Floating in Time #2

SD_Crtyv

I. This beat was made for the remix of ''O PANA!'' but... FUCKING COPYRIGHTS...

This is a sound that was electronically placed onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. 

Golden Record: Mud Pots

Golden Record: The First Tools

Whistler waves as heard by the EMFISIS instrument aboard NASA’s Van Allen Probes as it passed around Earth.

Credits: NASA/University of Iowa

Whistler Waves

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.

Golden Record: The First Tools

NASA

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