Description
Sound waves cannot travel in the near perfect vacuum of space, but electromagnetic and gravitational waves can. Converting these waves to sound reveals a series of weird and wonderful noises, known as the ‘sounds of space’, and it's a bit like entering the film set of a 1960’s sci-fi movie! In 2017 we set up an art-science collaboration to find novel ways of exploiting these fascinating ‘sounds’ and sharing them with wider audiences. In this presentation I will introduce a variety of space ‘sounds’ from Earth to beyond the galaxy. I will then describe how we have used them in performances that fuse art and science, music, short films, and in the production of a series of albums. Finally, I will describe how the ‘sounds’ of the Earth’s natural radio emissions have been used to enhance the exploration gameplay in the space simulation video game Elite Dangerous.
