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Just chatting with Tau and Chriwi, I noticed how much of LHC terminology sounds similar to music terminology, and I thought..... the beam does about 11Khz, so if you used that as a Key (maybe a couple of octaves down) , and used all the other LHC numbers as inputs/harmonies/etc.......could some VERY clever person come up with a method of turning all these numbers into live music?

That would be such a Buzz!!!! What would a Higgs boson sound like?

I would love to try it but I don't have the knowledge...dammit.

sonification - the technique of making audible sound from data, whether for the purpose of creating an auditory display or music. I've been thinking of trying this with accelerator data myself...

You can take beam position data as one bunch passes a single BLM, divide the interval it covers to tones and listen to the music it produces.
Who knows, you may even hear the hump in it...

Cool idea! I think you could even get the BPM data directly and listen to it.
I bet with our built-in frequency processor (called "ear") we could easily hear the tunes, and probably hear problems such as the hump. The 11kHz screech might have to be filtered out though; that may be too painful.

I imagine that there are many, many ways of achieving "The LHC Symphony". I so hope that the idea catches on and we get a huge range of people creating a huge range of different music.......what a buzz!!!!!!

Then again some people will probably use the fact that some kind of music may eventually - or not - contain a Crescendo to prove that the LHC will destroy earth

Mailo wrote:Then again some people will probably use the fact that some kind of music may eventually - or not - contain a Crescendo to prove that the LHC will destroy earth

Are you a Tolkien fan by chance?

There was Eru The One and he propounded a great theme......

I hadn't even thought of that......shame be upon me....

A first try: http://home.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/~mrongen/music.html

EDIT: It should play as background music. The original file is here: http://home.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/~mro ... _Music.mid

EDIT2: I have changed it to a mp3 file so that everyone can open it. But this might it slightly bigger 200kb -> 20 Mb :S

ah, there's no link to the sound file...

EDIT: aha! I'm not set up to hear MIDI playback directly from a web site at the moment...

Love the possibilities in that piece....I have renamed it "LHC1 by oxodoes" on my computer. It will be famous (with me anyway) as the first collider music.

Sounds like a great idea, but why don't you post it on youtube? I have some problems playing it on linux (shame on me...)

http://www.lhcsound.com

Looks like other people have thought of this as well.....

looks like LHC people too....

some of the sounds are interesting

the more the merrier

I've been working on sonification of the atlas live display images. Here's a preliminary clip:

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=95521

and going more in a glitch-hop direction:
http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=95522