Music

[mrgumby]

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.

[pixelmasseuse]

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...

[Kasuha]

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...

[Tau]

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.

[mrgumby]

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!!!!!!

[Mailo]

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

[March_Hare]

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?

[mrgumby]

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

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

[oxodoes]

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

[pixelmasseuse]

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...

[mrgumby]

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.

[Bornerdogge]

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...)

[tswsl1989]

http://www.lhcsound.com

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

[mrgumby]

looks like LHC people too....

some of the sounds are interesting

the more the merrier

[pixelmasseuse]

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