Name: 太陽を使って音楽を作る (Using the Sun to Make Music)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:47:13.000Z
Duration: 10 min 44 s
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過去完了形

ROBERT ALEXANDER: If you'd asked me five years ago,

Robert, where will you be five years from now?

I don't think I would've been able to come up with an answer

as cool as what I actually feel like I'm doing, you know?

ROBERT ALEXANDER: My name is Robert Alexander.

And I'm a data sonification specialist with the Solar and

To sonify something just means that you're taking any type of

So it could be a measurement of the stock market.

It could be a measurement of people entering

So if you think about a heart rate monitor--

I live in the space between art, and science, and

And the Toroidal Universe project is a great example.

I collaborated with this amazing visual artist by the

And we created this multi-sensory experience in

which people, they can just get lost in these theoretical

And these were filled with these sounds that I generated

from raw satellite data that were these kind of guide posts

It really is important for me to remain grounded in what it

means to just be connected with the world of sound in a

So then when I go off and I'm interacting with the sun, it

gives me a sense of grounding in a sense.

And it kind of helps just round out my life and to

So as I was finishing up my master's degree, I was

approached by Thomas Zurbuchen who leads the Solar and

And he was interested in taking some other data and

And they were telling me about coronal holes, and they were

And I really didn't understand much of it.

But then they put up these images and these movies.

And then I really started to understand why

It's because what's happening out there is absolutely

So essentially they're interested in kind of creating

a soundtrack for these things that are taking

SUSAN LEPRI: He brought to us this idea of sonifying data,

which is really quite innovative and maybe even

ROBERT ALEXANDER: I had no idea what data

But that's what I was doing at the time is I was taking this

solar data, and I was writing it directly into audio files.

So then after I crunched all the numbers, I realized that

what I was listening to was something that was

periodically happening every roughly 27 days.

And that's exactly the rotational period of the sun.

And then, from there it was this journey of realizing that

I'm listening to the solar cycle, so the rise and the

And then, at that point, I realized this can really

At first, it came off as extremely cerebral.

And it was just a tone that kind of went up and down.

And there really wasn't very much emotion behind it.

And we really didn't know how we wanted to start to

So then as it evolved, they said, well, how about we try

So a week later, I came back, and I had created this

iteration whereby you take a journey from the Earth out to

the sun and back, with sonification audio underlying

Every single piece of that music is driven in some way,

And all of the choices in terms of the rise and the

fall, all of them relate back to the underlying data.

And all of them are true to the data in some

Starting with one of the more predominant things that you're

There's a question of are there African tribal drummers

But if you think about a scientific graph, there are