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Celestial Forces of Jupiter and the Sun Collide

from Celestial Incantations by Sounds of Space Project

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Celestial Forces of Jupiter and the Sun Collide
Location: 9 million km from Jupiter (780 million km from the Sun)
Date: 24th June 2016

The Jovian bow shock is one of the most remarkable of all the ‘sounds’ of space. It is here that particles streaming from the Sun first encounter Jupiter’s massive magnetic field. These emissions were recorded by the Radio and Plasma Waves Sensor on board NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it approached Jupiter for the first time on 24th June 2016. The original recording was made at a distance of approximately 128 jovian radii or ~ 9 million km from the planet and has been compressed so that 2 hours plays back in 10 seconds.

This piece has no instrumental or vocal music, instead the 'sounds' captured by NASA provide more than enough material to compose with. Our initial bow shock starts and ends the composition, it is processed into a 24 second reverb and delay processing loop which allows the sound to bloom and continue on into eternity. The other sounds are processed with pattern enhancers, equalisation and pitch exciters to enable the vast planet of Jupiter to sing its own celestial song.

Artwork Inspirations: Force, magnitude, awesome power, primordial energy, bow shock, imagined interaction.

The track cover design is a layered digital collage created by Diana Scarborough. Some source material is from ESA. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/04/Return_to_the_Veil_Nebula

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from Celestial Incantations, released June 21, 2021
Kim Cunio electroacoustics
Diana Scarborough track artwork
Nigel Meredith science and 'sound' curation
‘Sounds’ at the jovian bow shock provided courtesy of NASA and The University of Iowa (space-audio.org)

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Sounds of Space Project Cambridge, UK

Sounds of Space Project is a collaboration with space weather research scientist Nigel Meredith (BAS), multimedia artist Diana Scarborough, and ANU Head of Music and composer Kim Cunio. Our projects emerge through a shared process of creative engagement and cross-disciplinary collaboration inspired by the 'sounds of space' from Earth to beyond the galaxy. ... more

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