Monday, July 19, 2010

Brilliant Noise



Here is a look at the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor has brought together some of the sun's unseen moments. These images in their raw form, reveal the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise.Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites which are re-organised to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies.More here.

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