Fractal Music - Image Sonifications (I) - V838 Monocerotis

Sonification of the Hubble Space Telescope image of V838 Monocerotis. Composed by Gustavo Díaz-Jerez.

Procedure:

- X axis of image mapped to time, in seconds.

- Y axis of image mapped to frequency (33-3165Hz, continuous, exponential scale, using sinusoids).

- Brightness of image mapped to dynamic range. Black (0,0,0) = silence (-INF dB). White (255,255,255) = Max (0 dB)

The right side shows a spectrogram and a bar diagram of the sound. The bottom shows the wave form.

Postprocessed with reverb added (3 seconds) and normalized to -3dB.

Notice that this is not somehow inspired or "based" on the image. It IS how the image translates to sound for the given paramenters.

More information and sheet music available at
http://www.fractalmusicpress.net

http://www.gustavodiazjerez.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Fractal
• Music
• V838
• Monocerotis
• Gustavo
• Diaz
• Jerez
• spectral
• music
• hubble
• space
• telescope
• contemporary
• sonification
• fractals
• mathematics
• alien

[nezahualocelot]

The Call of Cthulhu

[melchiahim]

The voice of the universe !

[aholatom]

It sure sounds like it looks - beautiful!

The splatter in the middle, however, sounds like the algorithm overflowed. Still wonderful though.

[AromaticDogwood]

i think a moving image would be best represented to the human ear by translating color frequency to sound frequency (and obviously scaling that frequency down so that our ears can pick it up), then panning the waves to simulate orientation of the perciever. I feel reverb or minor distortion would be best applied to the "peripherey" sounds to simulate or allude to an audible "focal point". might be interesting

[BrandonShayMusic]

What type of program does one use to compose fractal music? I definitely don't know how to program a FFT filter from scratch, let alone comprehend the calculus involved, so i figure there is some kind of program? I want to be able to impliment fractals into my rock music so ya

[cococot]

amazing!

[khyemamri]

whoa to the crazy speaker rockin' tones!

thanks and peace.

[RoboticusMusic]

what an evil galaxy.

[NewMusicXX]

This is excellent!

[hartito19]

increible!!!!,,,¡gracias!