{"id":1281,"date":"2013-03-22T05:05:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T05:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2013-03-22T05:05:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T05:05:29","slug":"space-music-from-starlight-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"Space music from starlight and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Posts by Robert Lamb\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.howstuffworks.com\/author\/hswrlamb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Robert Lamb<\/a>&#8216;s latest space music posting \u00a0looks at three musicians: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.howstuffworks.com\/2013\/03\/21\/buddhist-stars-sun-sounds-and-alphabet-heaven\/\" target=\"_d\">Space Music: Buddhist Stars, Sun Sounds and Alphabet\u2019s Heaven \u2013 The Blogs at HowStuffWorks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He begins with <a href=\"http:\/\/tangledfields.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Lucianne Walkowicz<\/a>, who works as a Princeton astrophysicist in her day job on the <a href=\"http:\/\/kepler.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kepler mission<\/a>. She <a href=\"http:\/\/tangledfields.com\/art\/\" target=\"_blank\">creates<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sonifications of data from NASA\u2019s Kepler mission. The sounds you hear are drawn from changes measured in the brightness of stars, which have certain frequencies that depend on how rapidly the star is spinning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F62563041\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Find more about her music at<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2013\/03\/08\/rhythms-of-starlight-melodies-of-astrophysics-fellows-friday-with-lucianne-walkowicz\/\" target=\"_d\">Rhythms of starlight: Fellows Friday with Lucianne Walkowicz &#8211; Ted.com <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/lmwalkowicz\" target=\"_d\">lmwalkowicz\u2019s stream on SoundCloud &#8211; Hear the world\u2019s sounds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The second musician is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertalexandermusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Alexander<\/a> and Lamb points to the recent VICE video about him, which I reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=551\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The third entry in Lamb&#8217;s piece is<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the video for Alphabet\u2019s Heaven\u2019 s \u201cBirthday\u201d\u00a0from <a href=\"http:\/\/kingdeluxe.ca\/siamese-burn\" target=\"_blank\">Siamese Burn EP<\/a> on King Deluxe, animated by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.howstuffworks.com\/2013\/03\/21\/buddhist-stars-sun-sounds-and-alphabet-heaven\/frfcl.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Renata G\u0105siorowska<\/a>. Absolutely lovely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/62144786\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Lamb&#8216;s latest space music posting \u00a0looks at three musicians: Space Music: Buddhist Stars, Sun Sounds and Alphabet\u2019s Heaven \u2013 The Blogs at HowStuffWorks. He begins with Lucianne Walkowicz, who works as a Princeton astrophysicist in her day job on the Kepler mission. She creates sonifications of data from NASA\u2019s Kepler mission. The sounds you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1281\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space music from starlight and more<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-arts","category-space-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-kF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7397,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7397","url_meta":{"origin":1281,"position":0},"title":"Kepler space telescope finds first earth-size planet in habitable zone","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"An announcement from the NASA Kepler mission: NASA's Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size Planet in 'Habitable Zone' Using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the \"habitable zone\" -- the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"PIA18000_ip","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/PIA18000_ip-1024x575.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12906,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12906","url_meta":{"origin":1281,"position":1},"title":"Kepler space observatory finds more than 100 new exoplanets","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Kepler space telescope\u00a0continues to find more planets around other stars: NASA\u2019s Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA\u2019s Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission. 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