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Brilliant Noise

submitted by srd

1 decade 6 years 4 months 2 weeks ago

"Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies."

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I wanted to see the ring somewhere in this vid.

That is soooo awsome, makes me feel like it's more than meet the eye "down there" is those black holes.

The Earth is about the size of the period at the end of this sentence, if you would like a reference for the size of those flares.

I'm thinking the Earth is about the size of the slider ball on the video instead of a period.

*Art
*Obscure
*Nature
*Shortfilms

Adding video to channels (Art, Nature, Obscure, Shortfilms) - requested by gwiz665.

*promote

Please switch this with the Vimeo version. http://www.vimeo.com/1284717

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Sunday, July 6th, 2008 7:43pm PDT - promote requested by Farhad2000.

I'd love to, since the vimeo version has definitely better quality. But I keep getting "Invalid embed code" when I paste vimeos embed stuff. Maybe I'm not golden enough for vimeo?

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Good stuff. I picked up a 5-CD set years ago called "Symphony of the Planets", where they took the solar winds bouncing off of different planet's magnetospheres and translated it into sound. It sounds completely alien, but oddly enough, familiar at the same time. Great ambient stuff to zone out to, when you're zoning that is...

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