Thanks to the project “Starsounds”, The astrophysicist Garik Israelian and the English composer and producer Brian Eno recreated the sound of the stars.
Although their music is imperceptible to the human ear, these stars produce infrasound acoustic waves that can be captured through telescopes and that together can provide a spectacular concert.
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According to a NASA article, “Bigger stars make lower, deeper sounds, like tubas and double basses, while smaller stars are high-pitched.”
Now available for the first time online, humanity can enjoy this stellar concert created by DNEG’s VFX Creative Director and Senior Supervisor Paul Franklin; DNEG Chief Scientist Oliver James; composer Brian Eno and Doctor Garik Israelian for the 2017 Starmus Festival.
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“Starsounds”, Is the result of work that started in 2016, when Israelian made a selection from its library of stellar recordings, dating back to 2005.
Those pieces, which were infrasound sound waves, were arranged and played by Eno, who accelerated the inaudible sounds of the stars so that they could be heard.
Meanwhile, members of the DNEG animation studio created images that responded to that composition with visual representations of recordings taken from the atmospheres of the stars, including Alpha Centauri, Eta Bootis, and Beta Hydra.
Combining their waveforms with sSl images taken by NASA’s SOHO satellite, they produced a sequence that accompanies the interstellar concert.
The Starmus Festival, hosted by Israelian and Queen’s legendary astrophysicist and guitarist Brian May, is an annual celebration of star science and space exploration, music and art, with patrons as well known as the late physicist Stephen Hawking.
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