Credit: Domenico Vicinanza.
Je kan de gegevens vergaard met de Large Hadron Collider (LHC) van CERN gebruiken om er een Higgs boson uit te vissen. Maar je kan er natuurlijk ook andere dingen mee doen, zoals een melodie mee maken. 😀 Domenico Vicinanza, professioneel componist én natuurkundige bij DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) nam die gegevens en maakte er een melodie van. Onder de video zie je beschreven hoe hij dat deed.
In order to take a subatomic particle like the Higgs Boson and convert it into a melody, to notes, what we do is basically take the data and associate with each one of the numeric values a single note on a score. Melody is following basically exactly the same behavior the scientific data is showing. So when the piano starts playing, you can hear some really really high pitched note. They are the signature of the Higgs Boson melody and they are corresponding to a peak in the scientific draft research has shown at CERN. The actual data points are only the one played by the piano at the beginning and then played by piano and marimba in the second repetition. So the marimba was playing the lower notes and the piano was playing the higher notes. So it sounds like a Cuban Habanera but this is classical insidence¦. I thoroughly believe that science can offer musicians a wonderful way to look for interesting melodies, interesting harmonies, interesting sonic phenomena. They can be taken and be used by composers to create some real entertainment.
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