🎶 2022-08-23 04:21:33 – Paris/France.
Posted on August 22, 2022 Posted by John Scalzi
Photo credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Stephen Walker et al, in the public domain
NASA's Exoplanets Twitter account posted this yesterday:
The misconception that there is no sound in space stems from the fact that most of space is a vacuum, which does not allow sound waves to travel. A cluster of galaxies contains so much gas that we have picked up real sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole! pic.twitter.com/RobcZs7F9e
— NASA Exoplanets (@NASAExoplanets) August 21, 2022
And I was everything, eh, I wonder if I can make music out of it.
The answer is: Apparently! Although I didn't end up using the original audio file. What I did was create a MIDI file from the original audio, quantize it for time and pitch, and use it for multiple individual tracks, stretching the information to 16, 32 and 64 bars, then putting various vocals and effects on the tracks. And then add drums. As we do.
I mentioned all of this to Athena, and she was like, "so, you sampled a black hole." " Well. Yes! Kind of. I'm a science fiction writer, I have the right.
The resulting track is a) short and b) asymmetric. It's not a song; it is a musical composition. And — it's a real surprise, I know — it's quite noisy. Again, it'll be on music services in the next few days, but for now, this is where you can hear it. I hope you like.
—JS
Comme ça:
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