Rock concert: Yellowstone seismic activity to be performed on live flute
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2023
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The Guardian, United Kingdom
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Move aside Metallica and Led Zeppelin: scientists are planning to make “rock” music by letting seismic activity headline in a live flute performance.
On Tuesday, Dr Domenico Vicinanza of the UK’s Anglia Ruskin University will use a computer program he has developed to turn real-time data, recorded by a seismograph at Yellowstone national park in the US, into a musical score.
“I am essentially mapping the [amplitude of the] vibrations and the oscillations to [notes],” he said.
The score will be put on a screen as it appears and will be played, live on stage, by Dr Alyssa Schwartz, visiting assistant professor of flute and musicology at Fairmont State University, as part of the 2023 Internet2 Community Exchange conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
As the amplitude of the vibrations produced by volcanic activity increase, so too will the notes rise up the musical scale. Likewise, if the seismograph data shows dramatic oscillations, so too will the melody...
On Tuesday, Dr Domenico Vicinanza of the UK’s Anglia Ruskin University will use a computer program he has developed to turn real-time data, recorded by a seismograph at Yellowstone national park in the US, into a musical score.
“I am essentially mapping the [amplitude of the] vibrations and the oscillations to [notes],” he said.
The score will be put on a screen as it appears and will be played, live on stage, by Dr Alyssa Schwartz, visiting assistant professor of flute and musicology at Fairmont State University, as part of the 2023 Internet2 Community Exchange conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
As the amplitude of the vibrations produced by volcanic activity increase, so too will the notes rise up the musical scale. Likewise, if the seismograph data shows dramatic oscillations, so too will the melody...
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/08/yellowstone-seismic-activity-live-flute-alyssa-schwartz-atlanta
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