Data from Large Hadron Collider used to compose music for film

Jun 04, 2015, 11:30 AM

Dr Domenico Vicinanza of Anglia Ruskin University has produced a piece of music based on data obtained during the search for the Higgs boson. The music, commissioned by ATLAS Experiment at CERN in Switzerland to accompany a new film, uses a process called data sonification, which involves transforming scientific information into sound. To compose the music, Dr Vicinanza went back to the data the ATLAS researchers used in 2012 to announce the discovery of the Higgs boson. He mapped the vertical position of the points to a D minor and then F Major scale, and then cut the melodies into fragments of 4 to 8 notes that he used to build the piece. And this is what it sounds like...