Electromagnetically charged particles in Jupiter's storms produce dark ambient music

[Karnos]

This is (apparently) a recording carried by the Voyager space probe using specially designed instruments to convert the electromagnetical vibrations emitted by super heated particles in Jupiter's storms into a sound frequency within the range of human hearing.

YouTube - Jupiter sounds (so strange!) NASA-Voyager recording

[Cyril Tourneur]

thank you for the reminder...i have the complete planet tunes on cd for years but somehow forgot them...i remember listening to them in the dark years ago...quite an experience...

[Spotbowserfido2]

This is rather eerie stuff. I feel the onset of the inspiration of a Jovian opera in three acts. I envision this one as dark ambient flamenco. "Great Red Spot" by Spot.

[Karnos]

Quote Originally Posted by Cyril Tourneur

thank you for the reminder...i have the complete planet tunes on cd for years but somehow forgot them...i remember listening to them in the dark years ago...quite an experience...

Where did you buy it? NASA has nothing on their website (other than some other good clips, like the compressed radio frequencies of Saturn's rings, very eerie) and Amazon only has two CDs listed, none of them available for purchase, I've also tried the easy way and download them either via torrents or P2P programs like Soulseek, but I haven't found anything.

[Cyril Tourneur]

I'll have to find it first...but then I can make you a copy, sure...just send me your email address

[yellowish haze]

This is amazing! At least now we know where Thomas Köner gets his inspiration from... ;-)

[Russell Nash]

The way things sound on Mars. The following sound samples were recorded in vacuum chamber simulating Mars atmospheric conditions. (Sound files courtesy University of California, Berkeley, and the Planetary Society)

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9911/01/mars.microphone/

Sounds of Titan

ESA - Cassini-Huygens - Sounds of an alien world

Sounds of Jupiter

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/galileo/sounds.cfm

Recording Expedition in the auroral-oval region when aurora can be frequently seen overhead

http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/mcgreevy/#latest

[Russell Nash]

What is so strange about sounds in other planets...?

What is so strange about sounds in the upper atmosphere...?

What would definitely be weird is to listen to sounds in empty space, between planets, between stars. Having an hydrogen atom per cm3 makes impossible for sound to be heard in empty space, even though in some American films, and TV series (The old Galactica, for example), once could hear a space ship virtually blown up, in EMPTY space. That's certainly weird.

All this said, different gases (atmospheres) allow different frequencies, and basically that's all, no magic.

[Steve Dekorte]

Great stuff - thanks for posting it.

[trieffiewiles]

Quote Originally Posted by yellowish haze

This is amazing! At least now we know where Thomas Köner gets his inspiration from... ;-)

Definitely. Lustmord also may be growing enviously green over Jupiter's ability to create music of his caliber without even having to think about it. Actually, I may check out his website forum to see if anyone over there has posted this. Great stuff.