Last night I got home and switched on Radio 4 - it's the new Environ - and the "leading Edge" science show was discussing Terry Riley's "Sun Rings" composition for the Kronos Quartet. It's based on some sounds obtained from plasma waves in and around earth. The bit I caught was about these waves being thrown up by the Earth's electromagnetic fields and travelling to the poles. Higher frequencies arrive before lower ones so the recording have this sliding sound. It's eerie as. But the Jupiter ones (jovial? har har) are melodic and rhythmic. It all sounded superb. Check them out, and have a read, at:
http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/ > kj: > >Someone told me that the vinyl version of Rings of Saturn also has the > >tracks cut at a scaled size as the actual rings of saturn. > > nd that they based the sound of the track on the metrial of the ring. each > ring apparently has a different substance, and they tried to reflect that in > the sound. [i think i got this from odwo keshun's book, can't even recollect > the title right now, so all of the above might have been my own > immagination. i'll look it up when i get home.] > > jurren
