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Scientist To Launch Interstellar Space Music

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Dr. Domenico Vicinanza, a senior lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, will premiere a new piece of music at the SXSW EDU festival in Texas.

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The music has been created using data beamed back to Earth from interstellar space by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.

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Dr. Vicinanza is a leading expert in data sonification, which is a process of converting scientific measurements into sound.

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The piece of music created using the data from Voyager 1 is for solo flute and has three sections.

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It charts Voyager 1's journey from inside the solar system, across the heliopause, and into interstellar space.

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Voyager 1 is the first manmade object to leave our solar system, and this is the first time interstellar plasma waves have been recorded.

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Dr. Vicinanza believes that listening to complex data is more effective than looking at graphs or numbers.

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The piece of music is a mix of techniques, including modulations and atonality, and is played using a combination of low and high registers of the flute.

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