Creating music based on quantitative data from variable stars

2018/11/07 by Droppelmann, C. A., Mennickent, R. E.
#FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1811.02930

Abstract

In this work we show a technique that allows for the musical interpretation of the brightness variations of stars. This method allows composers a lot of freedom to incorporate their own ideas into the score, based on the melodic line generated from the quantitative data obtained from the stars. There are a wide number of possible applications for this technique, including avant-garde music creation, teaching and promotion of the association between music and science.

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