Binary Dust – some reflections c2026
The origins of Binary Dust date back to 1993. I’d just finished my first degree in Astrophysics and was studying for a Masters in Computer-Music. By coincidence, the…
SonifyDSS – generate sounds from a galaxy
A wonderful birthday gift from Andy! Generate sounds from Digitized Sky Survey data using sonification techniques https://github.com/AstroAndyN/SonifyDSS OutlineSonifyDSS…
Autonoe – first wave of the quantum tide
“Quantum Tide” refers to the idea of quantum effects—like particles behaving in strange, wave-like ways—shaping and influencing a…
2023 releases
We start the year with eight pieces released (and, in some cases, re-released) widely across Spotify, Apple Music,…
Escape into the multiverse – an acoustic cosmology
[adapted from this #Thread] sonon (n): one wavelength ∂sThe equivalent of a photon in a sonic universe (soniverse)…
Sounds from the soniverse 2018-02-28
New sounds, based on quasar spectra from “The next generation atlas of quasar spectral energy distributions from radio…
Adventures in acoustic cosmology
ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY PRESS RELEASE Adventures in acoustic cosmology RAS PR 17/30 (NAM 13) 3rd July 2017 A…
Listen to the radio-cube of the Antennae Galaxies
Below is the optical image of the “Antennae Galaxies” colliding, as taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Overlaid…
Earthsounds
Interesting to compare: the sound of electromagnetic measurements of Earth transformed directly into sound, and then slowed down Original:…
Escape into the multiverse
A next step in acoustic cosmology
Acoustic cosmology at EMF camp 2016
Evolving language
Evolving thoughts on the language of music, I wonder if our reductionist adoption of the language of physics…
Binary Dust at ISEA 2012
Here’s a copy of the presentation I gave at ISEA 2012. Acoustic Cosmology ISEA 2012 from Gavin Starks
Heavenly Discourses – Acoustic Cosmology presentation
Here’s a copy of the presentation I gave at Heavenly Discourses. I’ll post the video when I get it. Acoustic…
Listen to the colliding “Antennae Galaxies”
Cross posting between my two blogs (not sure what the best approach is for this kind of thing,…
The utterance of a cosmological model?
“On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit…
Binary Dust, “Joan of Arc” – now live
Joan of Arc is now available. I took the photo on Arran in December last year. Hope you…
Another image
experimenting with the copper printout of the name…
Binary Dust, “Absorptance” – now live
So, “roughly monthly” didn’t quite happen… mostly work taking precedent, and partly getting a photo to go with…
Binary Dust, “Tempest” – now live
Hello, Well, here we go – this has been a while coming… 17 years or thereabouts. Tempest, originally…
Latvia performance
A reclaimed 32m Radio Telescope in the middle of the Lativan forests… brought to life over the past…