NASA’s Webb Telescope uncovered two views of the Southern Ring Nebula – in near-infrared light (at left in the track image) and mid-infrared light (at right in the track image) – and each has been adapted to sound.

In this sonification, the colors in the images were mapped to pitches of sound – frequencies of light converted directly to frequencies of sound. Near-infrared light is represented by a higher range of frequencies at the beginning of the track. Mid-way through, the notes change, becoming lower overall to reflect that mid-infrared includes longer wavelengths of light.
 
Listen carefully at 15 seconds and 44 seconds. These notes align with the centers of the near- and mid-infrared images, where the stars at the center of the “action” appear. In the near-infrared image that begins the track, only one star is heard clearly, with a louder clang. 

In the second half of the track, listeners will hear a low note just before a higher note, which denotes that two stars were detected in mid-infrared light. The lower note represents the redder star that created this nebula, and the second is the star that appears brighter and larger.
 
Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-webb-s-first-full-color-images-data-are-set-to-sound

Credits: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI; Accessibility Production: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and Kimberly Arcand (CXC/SAO), Matt Russo and Andrew Santaguida (SYSTEM Sounds), Quyen Hart (STScI), Claire Blome (STScI), and Christine Malec (consultant).

Webb’s Southern Ring Nebula Sonification

NASA’s Webb Telescope uncovered two views of the Southern Ring Nebula – one in near-infrared light and one in mid-infrared light. The colors in the images were mapped to pitches of sound – frequencies of light converted directly to frequencies of sound. This track only includes sounds from the near-infrared view. Near-infrared light is represented here by a higher range of frequencies than mid-infrared light. There are two stars in the center of this planetary nebula. In the near-infrared, only one star is heard clearly, with a louder clang.  
 
This sonification does not represent sounds recorded in space. Two musicians mapped the telescope’s data to sound, carefully composing music that represents near- and mid-infrared light, specifically to hear their contrasts. In a way, this sonification is like modern dance or an abstract painting – it converts Webb’s images into a new medium to engage and inspire listeners.
 
Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-webb-s-first-full-color-images-data-are-set-to-sound

Credits: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI; Accessibility Production: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and Kimberly Arcand (CXC/SAO), Matt Russo and Andrew Santaguida (SYSTEM Sounds), Quyen Hart (STScI), Claire Blome (STScI), and Christine Malec (consultant).

Webb’s Southern Ring Nebula Sonification: Near-Infrared

NASA’s Webb Telescope uncovered two views of the Southern Ring Nebula – one in near-infrared light and one in mid-infrared light. The colors in the images were mapped to pitches of sound – frequencies of light converted directly to frequencies of sound. 

This track only includes sounds from the mid-infrared view. Mid-infrared light is represented by lower notes overall to reflect that mid-infrared includes longer wavelengths of light. There are two stars in the center of this planetary nebula. 

Listeners will hear a low note just before a higher note, which denotes that two stars were detected in mid-infrared light. The lower note represents the redder star that created this nebula, and the second is the star that appears brighter and larger.
 
This sonification does not represent sounds recorded in space. Two musicians mapped the telescope’s data to sound, carefully composing music that represents near- and mid-infrared light, specifically to hear their contrasts. In a way, this sonification is like modern dance or an abstract painting – it converts Webb’s images into a new medium to engage and inspire listeners.
 
Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-webb-s-first-full-color-images-data-are-set-to-sound


Credits: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI; Accessibility Production: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and Kimberly Arcand (CXC/SAO), Matt Russo and Andrew Santaguida (SYSTEM Sounds), Quyen Hart (STScI), Claire Blome (STScI), and Christine Malec (consultant).

Webb’s Southern Ring Nebula Sonification: Mid-Infrared

Oral

Guess featuring Billie Eilish

Guess featuring billie eilish

This Morning

DrumNBassMix 240923

LES FESTIVES PLAN D'AUPS 3ème édition [AFRO-POP-ELECTRO 2018] //GERMAINE KOBO & BELLA LAWSON

Dodj #1

Lo Vas A Olvidar

billie eilish, rosalia - lo vas a olvidar (slowed and reverb)

L'OCEANIC TRIP HOP VENU DES ANTIPODES

Artiste pluridisciplinaire originaire de Nouvelle Calédonie et voyageur épris de liberté, Sacha relie les hémisphères depuis son Caillou natal jusqu’à Paris et abolit les frontières avec son trip hop océanien, luxuriant et envoûtant. Dans son orfèvrerie digitale tressée d’influences pop et de downtempo, d’effluves reggae et de rythmiques kaneka, ce métis hyperactif met en dialogue les identités mêlées avec ses échappées belles aux confins du monde.

Chanteur, compositeur, artiste medium entre les arts et les sciences, les disciplines et les genres, l’insatiable Sacha Terrat explore le langage sous toutes ses formes avec une appétence sincère pour les mélodies raffinées et les expressions corporelles. Dans sa bulle créative et ses compositions ouvragées, il agence des correspondances entre la nature calédonienne, la biodiversité australe et le foisonnement urbain des métropoles occidentales.

Et de ce mouvement pendulaire surgit une quête d’altérité et un désir profond et fécond d’universalité. Pour rallier les antipodes, Sacha place sa voix telle une caresse sur un canevas d’electronica. Comme sur un tapa, cette étoffe végétale de tradition millénaire que l’on partage dans les îles du Pacifique, sa musique jaillit d’une source organique puis se colore et se métamorphose. Les mélodies y trament des parures électros et des beats expérimentaux où se révèle un univers aux textures synthétiques et aux atmosphères contemplatives.

Un doux voyage aux embruns océaniques, un authentique trip sonore au parfum cosmique...



This Morning

Sacha TERRAT

Related tracks