The data obtained during 37 years of operation of NASA's Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 interplanetary probes were transformed into a musical Duo. The author of the translation data in the language of music — a physicist and musician Domenico Vicinanza.
He is also the project Manager of the Geant network, which is engaged in providing Europe's leading scientific projects with high-speed data channels, RIA Novosti reports. Vicinanza and his colleagues Mariapaola Sorrentino and Giuseppe La Rocca was able to convert in the melody data from the detectors to cosmic rays "Voyager-1 and Voyager-2" using a special algorithm.
The result is a four-minute duet in which every Voyager has said its group of tools.
As stated Vicinanza, he wanted to make a dedication of "Voyager-1 and Voyager-2" directly, so used the same measurements — data on protons with detectors of cosmic rays, which were taken with both devices, separated by several billion miles.
He also used different groups of instruments for each unit, synchronizing measurements taken at the same time.
The scientist noted that the transformation of data into music can be useful for finding patterns separated by large intervals, correlations, repetitions that are difficult to notice. Earlier Vicinanza together with colleagues Mariapaola Sorrentino and Giuseppe La Rocca was turned into a melody data of the Atlas experiment at the Large hadron Collider, showing the finding of the Higgs boson. This project they called Higgs songification, the process was to attach a corresponding note of the sound of a particular instrument to each part of the dataset, which is why, as vichinanza told Me, when you hear music, you really hear the data.
Music design of the magazine: data from Voyagers who turned into music January 23, 2014
The data obtained during 37 years of spatial exploration of interplanetary probes Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 from NASA, they have been transformed into a musical Duo for piano and strings.
The author of the translation data in the language of music — a physicist and musician Domenico Vicinanza.
He is also the project Manager of the Geant network, which is engaged in providing Europe's leading scientific projects with high-speed data channels, RIA Novosti reports. Vicinanza and his colleagues Mariapaola Sorrentino and Giuseppe La Rocca, they was able to convert in the melody data from the detectors to cosmic rays "Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 using a special algorithm.
The result is a duet for piano and four-minute strings, in which each Voyager provided data for his group of tools: Voyager 1 piano, Voyager 2 strings.
As stated by Vicinanza, he wanted to celebrate the trip of the two space probes, so he used two sets of measures coming directly from Voyager 1 and Voyager 2: those recorded every hour by the probes and those calculated on average on periods of twenty-six days. These data are the count of protons deriving from cosmic rays, that the two probes have picked up, although they are separated by billions of miles.
He also used different groups of instruments for each unit, synchronizing measurements taken at the same time.
The scientist noted that the transformation of data into music can be useful for finding patterns separated by large intervals, correlations, repetitions that are difficult to notice.
Previously Vicinanza collaborated with the scientists of the Atlas experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, to "give a musical voice at the Higgs boson, to be presented on July 4, 2012 ", on the occasion of the official announcement of the discovery.
This project, called the sonification of Higgs, was to convert data from a specific set of scientific instruments, in sound data that can be associated with a particular musical instrument, in this case the piano: "the solo piano at the Boson of Higgs".
The sounds of Cern had mainly artistic and descriptive purposes, without scientific pretensions.
As Vicinity said, when you listen to music, you really feel the data.
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Music design of the magazine:
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