There is/was a whole series of recordings published as CDs under the name "Symphonies of the Planets". Mostly done some 15 years ago. Kim Cascone has some knowledge of the people who did them.


I have attached a pdf of the CD liner notes I was able to track down, hopefully it will get through the list filter OK.

I can't recommend these tracks highly enough. Such a pity the page has to call the sounds "terrifying". I would normally meditate in silence, but I can meditate with these sounds very easily - maybe precisely becasue there is zero to minimal "compositional structure" to them; though it seems far from random. Having recently visited the Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist monastery, and heard one of their main rituals start up (cymbals, trumpets), I can assert those sounds are far more terrifying than anything Nasa recorded!

Richard Dobson

On 09/08/2014 17:24, peiman khosravi wrote:

Has anyone heard these?
http://www.thedailyepic.com/nasa-probes-record-sounds-in-space-and-its-terrifying/

I can't find much info about these recordings, even though I've
downloaded these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nasa-Voyager-Space-Sounds/dp/B002N7O39W. I'm
wondering if these recordings are obtained by simply putting the signal
(which is within audible frequency range) through loudspeakers, or if
they are made by mapping out to synthesis parameters. I'm hoping for the
former! But then, how much post processing (e.g. noise reduction) has
been applied to get to this stage? There is no technical info that I can
find form NASA.

Best,
Peiman

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There is/was a whole series of recordings published as CDs under the name "Symphonies of the Planets". Mostly done some 15 years ago. Kim Cascone has some knowledge of the people who did them.


I have attached a pdf of the CD liner notes I was able to track down, hopefully it will get through the list filter OK.

I can't recommend these tracks highly enough. Such a pity the page has to call the sounds "terrifying". I would normally meditate in silence, but I can meditate with these sounds very easily - maybe precisely becasue there is zero to minimal "compositional structure" to them; though it seems far from random. Having recently visited the Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist monastery, and heard one of their main rituals start up (cymbals, trumpets), I can assert those sounds are far more terrifying than anything Nasa recorded!

Richard Dobson

On 09/08/2014 17:24, peiman khosravi wrote:

Has anyone heard these?
http://www.thedailyepic.com/nasa-probes-record-sounds-in-space-and-its-terrifying/

I can't find much info about these recordings, even though I've
downloaded these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nasa-Voyager-Space-Sounds/dp/B002N7O39W. I'm
wondering if these recordings are obtained by simply putting the signal
(which is within audible frequency range) through loudspeakers, or if
they are made by mapping out to synthesis parameters. I'm hoping for the
former! But then, how much post processing (e.g. noise reduction) has
been applied to get to this stage? There is no technical info that I can
find form NASA.

Best,
Peiman

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<http://peimankhosravi.co.uk/miscposts.rss> || Concert News
<http://spectralkimia.wordpress.com/>*

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