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New album Aurora Musicalis brings the ‘sounds of space’ to the public | |
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2020-05-06 | |
发布年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 英国 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
正文(英文) | A new album with the unique ‘sounds of space’ recorded from Antarctica is released free today (6 May 2020). Aurora Musicalis contains the natural radio ‘sounds’ of our planet, recorded at British Antarctic Survey’s Halley VI Research Station in Antarctica. The ‘sounds’ are accompanied by original piano music by composer Kim Cunio of the Australian National University, with image processing by Cambridge-based artist-engineer Diana Scarborough. The album release is part of the ongoing ‘Sounds of Space’ project, a collaboration between space weather research scientist Nigel Meredith of British Antarctic Survey, Diana Scarborough, and Kim Cunio. In this time of social isolation, Aurora Musicalis offers the chance to listen deeply to the acoustic ecology of our planet’s natural radio emissions from the comfort of our homes.
The Sounds of Space: The planet naturally produces a variety of radio waves, generated by lightning activity and geomagnetic storms driven by the Sun. These natural radio waves are at the lower end of the radio spectrum in the audio-frequency range, so-called because they have the same frequencies as audible sound waves. BAS uses a Very Low Frequency (VLF) receiver at Halley VI Research Station in Antarctica, to pick up these emissions. BAS space weather research scientist Dr Nigel Meredith explains:
The unique ‘sounds’ provide a heightened experience of the life of the planet; including terrestrial sounds like ‘spherics’, which are pulses from lightning flashes, and those generated further from the planet, such as ‘chorus emissions’, from electrons entering the magnetosphere during geomagnetic storms, which can resemble the twittering of birds.
The creation of Aurora Musicalis: From four years of data collected at Halley VI VLF, the Sounds of Space team chose a 24 hour period from the 9 August to 10 August 2012 to explore with music and art. The Aurora Musicalis album presented here is the result of Kim Cunio’s playing the piano in another 24 hour period, playing directly to the ‘sounds’. The recording has been cut from the 24 hour day down to the final 90 minutes of sound presented in Aurora Musicalis; with samples of sound, date and time-stamped, and ultimately edited down into 11 tracks so that the listener can experience the changing sounds throughout the course of the day. Australian National University Head of Music and composer Kim Cunio explains:
A bonus track is available on Youtube, featuring Kim Cunio’s piano composition, with a selection of Halley VI VLF recordings, selected by Nigel Meredith from 9 August to 10 August 2012. The digital art has been created by Diana Scarborough, including use of material from the BAS image collection: Artist-engineer Diana Scarborough says:
Listen to the 11 tracks of the full 90 minute album, experiencing Kim Cunio’s response to the Sounds of Space and Antarctica, wherever you are, here: Aurora Musicalis Album
Get involved: Have you been inspired by Aurora Musicalis and the Sounds of Space project? Create your own musical or visual response to the raw Halley ‘sounds’ from Track 13 in Bandcamp and share with us using #SoundsofSpace. Explore the British Antarctic Survey website to learn more about the ongoing Sounds of Space project.
Acknowledgements: The team would like to thank the scientists and engineers at BAS who have contributed to the success of the VLF receiver at Halley, including Richard Horne, Mark Clilverd, Neil Cobbett, and Andy Smith. The team would also like to thank Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, Director of Innovation at BAS, for continued support of the project. Nigel Meredith would like to acknowledge funding from Natural Environment Research Council Highlight Topic grant NE/P10738X/1 (Rad-Sat), the NERC grant NE/R016038/1. Diana Scarborough would like to thank the School of Music, Australian National University, for their support as a Visiting Fellow and The Artists Information Company (A-N) for her travel bursary. Kim Cunio travelled to Cambridge in 2018 on a Research School for Humanities and the Arts research grant.
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