Fire Sonification

Klasik & Sounds

Music: Three Pieces, Op. 1 — No. 1 Étude in D flat major
Composer: Sergei Lyapunov
Artist: Margarita Glebov, piano
Album: Sergei Lyapunov: Piano Music
Label: Toccata Classics - TOCC0218

Purchase: http://bit.ly/1ic0puO

The piano music of Sergei Lyapunov (1859–1924) blends the Russian nationalism of
the Balakirev circle – of which Lyapunov was a member – with the virtuosic tradition
of Liszt. Although his superb piano-writing combines contrapuntal dexterity and a rich
vein of lyricism, much of his output for piano has been neglected, and this chronological
survey, covering three decades of Lyapunov’s composing life, contains a number of first
recordings.

Lyapunov: Piano Music — Three Pieces, Op. 1, No. 1 Etude in D flat major

Inspiration from Nature knows no boundary and can take on unusual forms.

Fire has fascinated humankind since the prehistoric era. Rooted in the interactions between sound and flames, we report a method to use fire for a variety of purposes, including sonification, art, and the design and manufacturing nature-inspired materials.

We present a method to sonify fire, thereby offering a translation from the silent nature of flames, to represent audible information, and to generate de novo flame images.

To realize material specimen derived from fire, we use the autoencoder to generate image stacks to yield continuous three dimensional geometries that are manufactured using 3D printing.

This represents the first generation of nature-inspired audible signals from fire, and can be a platform to be used for other natural phenomena in the quest for de novo architectures, geometries, and design ideas, thus creating additional directions in artistic and scientific research through the creative manipulation of data with structural similarities across fields.

Original paper: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)00841-5

Fire sonification: Making silent flames audible

Sergei Lyapunov- Round Of Phantoms, Transcendental Etude

Fire is one of the key elements in Nature, used from the prehistoric era to heat living environments, to cook food for survival and enjoyment. 

Challenging the silent nature of fires, we utilize an assembly of deep neural networks to find a way to better understand the underlying mechanics of fire, and render complex but silent flames audible by associating them with a unique sonic spectrum.

The total image of the fireplace is segmented into small partials, each of which is analyzed for its sonic equivalence in terms of the local flame features, then rendered into audible signal using wavetable synthesis.

This offers a thorough exploration of the deep, complex structural content of the flames in this fireplace.

Fireplace Sonification

A novel method to sonify flames is used to render a gently flickering flame into audible information.

Flame Drone

Using the sounds generated by a flickering flame, here we develop a simple musical arrangement by using this elementary building block as sonic construct to be assembled in new forms.

Hierarchical Flame Fragment

Birds chirping and singing 1

Electricity going through an electrical post, at nigh in the desert. Sound recorded really close to the mast, to have a deep-bass sound.

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41+CCM8
Sound Devices 552 mixet + Sound Devices 744T recorder
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
sound reference: @KT_111113T042
recorded in november 2011

The same sound on Freesound :
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/135038/

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Electricity going through an electrical post, at night in the desert.

Wind is blowing and howling in the salt desert of Atacama (Chili)

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41&CCM8;
Sound Devices 744T Recorder
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
recorded in 2012 during the shooting of "CAMANCHACA // Notes pour un Film à venir" directed by Clio Simon (http://www.wix.com/cliosimo8/cliosimon - cliosimon@gmail.com) 
Photography : Sergio Nahuel

The same sound on Freesound :
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/142335/

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Wind is blowing and howling in the salt desert of Atacama (Chile)

Markus J. Buehler is the McAfee Professor of Engineering at MIT, and a composer of experimental, classical and electronic music, with an interest in sonification. Using an approach termed "materiomusic", his artistic work explores the creation of new forms of musical expression - such as those derived from biological materials and living systems - as a means to better understand the underlying science and mathematics. One of his goals is to use musical and sound design as a novel and abstract way to model, optimize and create new forms of matter from the bottom up, and to assess cross-system design relationships. He is also interested in research to explore relationships between classical music, mathematics, and the physical and biological sciences, an in the mapping of models of consciousness across systems. In recent work he has developed a new framework to compose music based on proteins – the basic molecules of all life, as well as other physical phenomena such as fracturing, to explore similarities and differences across species, scales and between philosophical and physical models. 

Contact: mbuehler@MIT.EDU