News From Hipparchus to Hipparcos: A sonification of stellar catalogues

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Took a while to figure out what this is about, its a collection of sound clips where the pitch, amplitude, duration correspond to various paramaters in the star catalogues.

After analysing a number of ancient and modern catalogues of stars, Jamie created a software to map the various astronomical parameters provided in each catalogue into different dimensions in a soundscape. The result is a short audio clip, From Hipparchus to Hipparcos: A sonification of stellar catalogues, which can be listened to and downloaded from ESA's SoundCloud channel.

Interesting, I think,

Parameters used to create the sound: Pitch (star brightness) and location in the sound space (2D position: right ascension and declination); background noise to convey accuracy of measurements. Groups of two stars are played simultaneously.

Individual clips at bottom of page,

http://sci.esa.int/gaia/58311-from-hipparchus-to-hipparcos-a-sonification-of-stellar-catalogues/

Must admit hadn't heard of Ulugh Beg. Definitely getting some bass by Tycho Brahe's!
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