Atish leading off Friday night on Robot Heart at Burning Man 2011. Heart heart. Enjoy!

Robot Heart - Burning Man 2011 - Atish

The Sun is playing a secret melody, hidden inside itself, that produces a widespread throbbing motion of its surface. The sounds are coursing through the Sun's interior, causing the entire globe, or parts of it, to move in and out, slowly and rhythmically like the regular rise and fall of tides in a bay or of a beating heart. The sun is quietly singing. It’s boiling and throbbing gases create sound waves that resonate like a bell or a giant gong within its interior. These oscillations are visible as waves when they reach the surface, but their frequencies are too low to be audible by human ears. Fortunately, astronomers at Stanford University are able to record these acoustical pressure waves and speed them up approximately 42,000 times in order to produce a frequency that we can hear. The result is a tone or a musical note whose frequency is 144 cycles per second.

Robot Heart is a collective of doers and dreamers, artists and entrepreneurs. Our home is in the desert dust of Burning Man, and the streets of New York City, Detroit, Bay Area and Hong Kong. Home is wherever the Heart is.

Robot Heart is a community and a family, and our events are an extension and celebration of that community, bound together by shared values of inclusion, giving, environmental responsibility and mutual respect.

Music is our first language, and our mission is to bring love and beats to the world. We work with and support artists, technologists and visionaries of all types in order to create incredible experiences and connected moments. To create love and beats, for you.