From the NPR’s science blog, here’s two videos of metronomes starting out of sync & eventually aligning with no intervention. The science behind this is also explained in this article. Fascinating if you’re a music buff or just have a curious mind. Ah, and the analogies that this triggered for me! The little metronome that wouldn’t
Tag: Symphony
Sounds of the sun [Article]
Robert Alexander is a sonification expert. I had no idea what that meant, so I looked to this Wikipedia entry to understand it a bit more. Essentially, it is converting data into sound to interpret it (forget for now the philosophical implications of that statement). Alexander has created sounds & symphonies from data that NASA collected of the Sun’s radiation, its rotation, & of its Solar flares.