Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Now, listen to music made from the sound of radiation

A nuclear safety team in Sweden have teamed with composer Axel Boman and musician Kristofer Hagbard to make music from the sound of radiation - present in everything around us.
"Right now we know of 3,175 different isotopes," Georg Herlitz, who heads the project, told FoxNews.com, "each with its owns decay pattern. We took the energy loss from each level and translated it into hertz, something like one kiloelectron voltage for two frequencies."
The result was phenomenal.
They ended up creating a web interface wherein you can create your own melodies that use isotopic frequencies-and visualize how radioactive energy moves.
Hagbard explained that he listened to hundreds of isotopes to find those that were artistically pleasing. In some cases, as with the Cobalt-60 isotope, he used an actual gamma spectra signature and converted it into an audio signature, and then incorporated that into the music.
"As far as we know this is the first time in history where radiation is translated to something quite tangible. It's a way of showing that radiation does not have to be harmful," added Liselotte Herlitz, who heads the nuclear safety team in Sweden called K
?rnkraftss?kerhet och Utbildning or KSU.
Boman and Hagbard are about to release a new album, called Radioactive Orchestra, using their own melodies based on the work, releasing August 15.

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