Inspired by the discovery of the remarkably musical TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, an astrophysicist, a musician, and an astrophysicist/musician decided to explore what happens when the rhythms and harmonies of astronomical systems are translated into sound and music so they can be heard by human ears. The result is SYSTEM Sounds, a collection of music and animations generated by numerical simulations, real data, and a little creativity.
Our first creation, TRAPPIST Sounds, was featured in the New York Times, on BBC Radio, and on CBC’s Quirks and Quarks.
In early 2018 we developed a sound-based planetarium show Our Musical Universe with the support of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, the IAU’s Office of Astronomy for Development, and the Ontario Arts Council. This is an audio and visual tour of the cosmos from the night sky all the way out to the edge of the observable universe and is accessible to the visually impaired. It was featured in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and on CBC’s Metro Morning.
Lately, we’ve been working with NASA to convert data from their telescopes and space probes into music and sound. We began with the flaring blazar which was recently found to be the source of a high-energy neutrino from outside the galaxy, a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy.
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