The Electromagnetic Chorus
Jun 21, 2019, 01:56 PM
Electromagnetic dawn chorus reimagined by Cities and Memory.
It's uncanny how much the phenomenon known as the "electromagnetic dawn chorus" sounds like real birdsong, so an obvious starting point was to blend this sound with birdsong from one of my favourite local spots, Wytham Woods near Oxford - which is a site of special scientific research so fits the theme nicely.
From there, the piece is designed to create a picture of what it might be like to "see dawn" in space, moving across the Earth until the sun appears, breaking on one side of our field of vision until it magnificently reveals itself in full. This is watching the sun rise in outer space.
Part of the Space is the Place project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/space
Photo by Tyler van der Hoeven on Unsplash
It's uncanny how much the phenomenon known as the "electromagnetic dawn chorus" sounds like real birdsong, so an obvious starting point was to blend this sound with birdsong from one of my favourite local spots, Wytham Woods near Oxford - which is a site of special scientific research so fits the theme nicely.
From there, the piece is designed to create a picture of what it might be like to "see dawn" in space, moving across the Earth until the sun appears, breaking on one side of our field of vision until it magnificently reveals itself in full. This is watching the sun rise in outer space.
Part of the Space is the Place project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/space
Photo by Tyler van der Hoeven on Unsplash