MUSIC OF THE PLANETS

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Every Planet has a 'musical tone' the Earths tone is c sharp - I remember listening to all the tones online several years ago and have been looking for the site for some time.

Here are some interesting youtubes capturing sounds from Saturn and Earth they are from Nasa as well as other topics.

I will look for other information on the musical tones of the planets and you will realise they are beautiful.


wn.com/NASA_Sound_of_Space__Jupiter%27s_Moon_Io


Kepler's Music of the Spheres, a joint composition by Paul Viotti and Ralph Abraham
Sound Files

Where are You? What are you hearing?

Imagine that you are sitting on the sun. Planets do not orbit you circularly; they do so elliptically. Moreover, as planets approach you, their velocities increase. These observations made by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) are pivotal to our present-day understanding of the solar system. Kepler dreamed that the planets' movements were of a divine order and that they collectively formed the music of the spheres. He wrote, "the movements of the heavens are nothing except a certain everlasting polyphony." As you listen from the sun, focus on the warbling pitch of the planets--the higher the pitch is, the faster the planet is moving.

Before experiencing the "Music of the Spheres," listen to the range of each planet's angular velocity. You will hear the highest and lowest pitch of each of the six planets known to Kepler, beginning with Mercury.


www.viotti.com/kepler-scale.mp3


All Six Planets' Voices (Presented by Abraham and Viotti at the SFAI in April of 2003):

The soundtracks for the April 2003 performances in San Francisco were created from modern astronomical data using C-sound programs. In the piece, there are four tracks for quadraphonic surround sound. Pitch ranges and pitch cycle timing of the planets are synchronized to a single cycle of saturn, scaled to about two minutes. This is a stereo MP3 file, a spatially condensed representation of the quadraphonic version.

www.viotti.com/kepler-stereo.mp3

ndividual Planets Heard Separately:

What is the sound of a single planet revolving around the sun? (10 seconds each; stereo MP3s)


* Mercury (the most eccentric)
www.viotti.com/mercury-short.mp3


* Venus
www.viotti.com/venus-short.mp3

* Earth (the least eccentric)
www.viotti.com/earth-short.mp3

* Mars
www.viotti.com/mars-short.mp3

* Jupiter
www.viotti.com/jupiter-short.mp3
dont seem to think this mp3 recorded?


* Saturn (probably inaudible to those with small speakers)

www.viotti.com/saturn-short.mp3

www.viotti.com/kepler.html





Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) published his work Harmonices Mundi, in 1619. This work, in which he attempted to explain the harmony of the world, was a series of five books and contained what is known today as his third law. The work was founded on geometry, from which Kepler derived first a theory of musical harmony and then a cosmology of the heavens and the earth.

Kepler was attempting to find common rules between music and movement in the solar system. His music of the spheres is based on the relative maximum and minimum angular velocities of the planet measured from the sun. Using his theories, Kepler allotted to the planets musical intervals and musical motion.

Kepler describes these ideas in Harmonice Munde as his attempt "to erect the magnificent edifice of the harmonic system of the musical scale . . . as God, the Creator Himself, has expressed it in harmonizing the heavenly motions."

There is a major complication for anyone who would attempt to perform Kepler's Music of the Spheres in real time: using Kepler's formulas it would take 30 years to perform the entire piece. So, to even attempt to recreate Kepler's cosmic music, it is possible to compress the time factor for the music, and then we can listen to a representation of this harmony of planetary motion.

The following music is of course simply an attempt to recreate Kepler's mathematic formulas of the music of the spheres in real time. Kepler himself stated that, "I grant you that no sounds are given forth, but I affirm . . . that the movements of the planets are modulated according to harmonic proportions.". This music is a representation of those proportions.


Earth and venus

www.amaranthpublishing.com/Earth%20-%20Venus%20-%20exceprt.mp3

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www.visual-kepler.org/music/pitch/


Here is a graph relating pitch frequency to our keyboard scale. This is, of course, the exponential function, and may have been involved in the discovery of logarithms. The gray rectangle indicates the range of the standard piano keyboard.
And here, on the same scale, are the pitch ranges for the planets, assuming a mean pitch of 20 Hz for Saturn.
Note that the vertical scale from C4 (16 Hz) to C15 (ca 32,000 Hz) is appproximately the normal range of human hearing. Rev'd 07 jan 2002 by ralph abraham




Keplers music of the spheres

www.visual-kepler.org/music/

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www.keplerstern.com/Music_of_spheres/music_of_spheres.html

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"The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect,
a figured music which sets landmarks
in the immeasurable flow of time."


solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=7443
John Banville: Kepler, (Minerva 1990)

Johannes Kepler is well known for his Music of the Spheres doctrine.

Kepler's Music of the Spheres is a often misunderstood concept that has traveled the world. More is known than we have here. It's well worth the time to research.

www.skyscript.co.uk/kepler.html

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This is so interesting, how much is their way of life different from ours....

But if you listen this, reduce the tone on the headset.
The second link, do you know what happened to me, I jumped from my chair...