Peking Sonification

 

English: This song was generated using three years of air quality data in Beijing. The daily measurements of air pollutants alter the sounds and visuals over the duration of the song. Read more about the composition and process of creating this song here: datadrivendj.com/tracks/smog Data-Driven DJ (datadrivendj.com) by Brian Foo (brianfoo.com) is a series of music experiments that combine data, algorithms, and borrowed sounds.
Date	18 March 2015
Source	Vimeo: Air Play - Smog Music Created With Beijing Air Quality Data (view archived source)
Author	brian foo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Air_Play_-_Sonification_of_Beijing_Air_Quality_Data.webm

Chandrayaan-3: It’s beginning to look more like the Space Age

Listen People: When objectivity reaches its limit, then sympathy comes to fill the gap. If ‘you are there’ in the control room in Srikarikota, India – even if it’s via live youtube feed - the harder it is to take when science goes off the rails. Such I discovered for  myself when the beeping of a moon Lander stopped. That happened in Sept 2019 when communications went mute 2.1km from the lunar surface and Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander crashed on descent. The voices of the control room crew were muted too. They were lost in thought.

The most recent news on the yoyage of Chandrayaan-3, too, was a bummer. Yesterday’s news held that  a moon rover deployed on the Southside of the moon by Chandrayaan-3 could not answer the wake up call after one ‘day’ on the planet. A long -- two-weeks by earthmeasure -- night’s hibernation under ultra-frigid conditions in the Sea of Nectars [may have] crashed its electronic components, and the rover failed to acknowledge sends. 

This story plays out like a mine disaster. Any word? They are still listening for a stirring of the rover, deployted from the lander Vikram. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) control room personnel are hopeful the rover will wake up on the moon soon.

The sympathetic hand writes “Progress, thy name is ‘fitful’” – as moon efforts could use a boost in momentum. Momentum is a phenomenon, and once it subsides it’s hard to re-kindle. Assorted small projects, Power Points, and plastic models have followed the spectacular space programs of the 1960s. [see earlier story].

[Waking up the Vikram will have special import, as the mission sought to explore the Moon's South Pole. Vikram landed short of the polar region, which the rover, dubbed  Pragyan, was to set out for. Chinese lunarists were quick to point this out,]

This let-down should not do away with the fact that Chandrayaan-3 landed smoothly. Unquestionably, the technology know-how of the Indian Nation has proved exceptional. Perhaps we don’t have a giant step for mankind here, but we can ascertain a significant cluster of activity after dormant decades.  

The Indian mission was a moment for national pride, especially coming as it did mere days after a Russian expedition failed in the same area of the Moon. 

Eyes turn next to efforts centered on Japan's SLIM moon lander, presently undergoing testing in an Earth orbit phase. Listen People. - Jack Vaughan

Related

https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/science-and-future/chandrayaan-3s-achievements-on-the-moons-south-polar-region-615783.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66654775

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/chandrayaan-3-isro-yet-to-hear-from-vikram-pragyan-but-theres-still-time/articleshow/103869540.cms

https://www.space.com/japan-slim-moon-lander-completes-first-phase-earth-orbit

https://moontravellerherald.blogspot.com/2023/09/h-iia-launches-xrism-and-slim-sept-10.html

Southern Ring Nebula Sonification

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NASA’s JWST uncovered two views of the Southern Ring Nebula — in near-infrared light (at left) and mid-infrared light (at right) — and each has been adapted to sound. Two stars orbit one another at the center of this planetary nebula. The smaller, fainter red star in the mid-infrared image at right is at the end of its lifetime — it has puffed off layers of gas and dust for thousands of years. Its companion, the brighter, larger star in both images, has stirred up those ejections. Now, listeners can hear the stars and surrounding shells of material in each image clearly. In this sonification, the colors in the images were mapped to pitches of sound — frequencies of light converted directly to frequencies of sound. Near-infrared light is represented by a higher range of frequencies at the beginning of the track. Mid-way through, the notes change, becoming lower overall to reflect that mid-infrared includes longer wavelengths of light.

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Set the controls for a coronal mass expulsation, baby

 

[2023/09/15/] - Parker Solar Probe’s Wide Field Imagery for Solar Probe (WISPR) camera observes as the spacecraft passes through a massive coronal mass ejection on Sept. 5, 2022. Coronal mass ejections are immense eruptions of plasma and energy from the Sun’s corona that drive space weather.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Lab.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/2023/09/15/parker-observes-powerful-coronal-mass-ejection-vacuum-up-interplanetary-dust/

H-IIA launches XRISM and SLIM - Sept 10

DESTINATION: MARE NECTARIS

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It'sOneMinuteinthat

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"The liftoff from the shores of Tanegashima, an island in the southern part of the Japanese archipelago, was picturesque, with the Japanese H-IIA rocket soaring over the remote launch site and disappearing into the blue skies that were punctuated by a few clouds. About 47 minutes after the flight began, launch officials were shown in a live video stream to be celebrating in the mission control room as the XRISM and SLIM spacecrafts headed toward their diverging cosmic destinations."  -NYT

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DESTINATION: MARE NECTARIS

A December drive from the Bay Area back to Chicago

 

A lot of stories around Sunnyland Slim revolve around cars and weather - for example Paul De Marks testament in Sunnyland Blues about a ride through the snow from Arkansas to S.F. The road has taken many musicians, and there are many tales. It's the life of the road. Jim Haas recently shared a memory of a ride through snow from S.F. to Chicago with Sunnyland, which we are very glad to publish here. For non-stop musical inspiration, be sure to listen to Jim's on-demand Al Compas del Mundo Radioactiva  radio show and visit his Al Compas delMundo blog which chronicles the music.

 A December drive from the Bay Area back to Chicago - In Slim's old station wagon with Sister Sarah along for the ride. We took turns driving. Listening to them exchanging small talk and recollections during many hours was an education all by itself. Regrettably, I don't recall much if anything of the subject matter with one exception. Sarah got talking about life back in Mississippi and dialed in on the fact that black snakes there look to suckle off of pregnant women or recent mothers. They both were in agreement that this was a fact and something to take caution from. I had never heard about that in Racine! A day or so later as we got closer to the Midwest, we got caught up in a terrible ice storm. Around 4:00am Slim declares his brakes have gone out. Fortunately there's almost no one on the road as he drifts off the highway (not an interstate) to an exit ramp where a service station sits. "There's nobody here now who can work on your brakes, Mister. They're all out getting folks out of ditches and the like. Maybe later this morning." Slim decides he doesn't want to sit around this place for any lengthy time and declares we'll just keep on going. With a full tank of gas and little if any other traffic, we barreled along  at a moderate speed but with no need to stop. Once we actually got into the suburbs of Chicago, however, there was a stop sign or two. Slim either just rolled on through or swerved into the snow bank on the side of the road to slow us down. To this day I'm still filled with admiration and disbelief that he navigated us from route 66, northwards and through the streets of the city during an enormous winter storm, all the way to his home, without any brakes. RIP Sunnyland Slim. - J.H.

Destination Moon: Japan launches lander, X-Ray Telescope

Japan Launches X-Ray Telescope, Moon Lander https://t.co/qwRcnUvtXg

— Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) September 16, 2023

"The liftoff from the shores of Tanegashima, an island in the southern part of the Japanese archipelago, was picturesque, with the Japanese H-IIA rocket soaring over the remote launch site and disappearing into the blue skies that were punctuated by a few clouds. About 47 minutes after the flight began, launch officials were shown in a live video stream to be celebrating in the mission control room as the XRISM and SLIM spacecrafts headed toward their diverging cosmic destinations."  -NYT

Dispatch from Planet X - Sept 9 2023

My new major essay introduces the Santiago School of Technology as a counterpart to the Chicago School of Economics. I also suggest that Allende's greatest legacy may be his government's efforts to build a different technological world order https://t.co/1IXWE1nKz4

— Evgeny Morozov (@evgenymorozov) September 9, 2023

Miss Comet Nishimura Is Coming - Hide Your Heart, Girl https://t.co/YC2N6bKNKs

— Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) September 9, 2023

Memory is terrible at remembering lists, but superb at remembering routes through space. [That's evolution.] If you want to remember something, then you create a mental route and you distribute the items on your list along the route. https://t.co/i3hvukYEBI via @YouTube

— Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) September 9, 2023