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Composer Makes Music From Positron Trails in Cloud Chambers
Music composer and network engineer Domenico Vicinanza has brought together his two loves by making music from the particle tracks of positrons passing through cloud chambers.
The sealed metallic vessels are filled with superheated liquids or vapors, which detect electrically charged particles passing through them, like the more modern silicon particle detectors used in the LHC at Cern. Positrons fired through the chambers — antiparticles of electrons, a trillionth of a meter in size — are subatomic and make no measurable sound by themselves, so Vicinanza had to work out a method to bring their music to life.
He took data stored on the International Science Grid that depicts the tracks, or routes, taken through the chambers by positrons, and draws those directly onto music staves. The elegant arcs and lines are then used as a path over which music notes are laid. Vicinanza composes the melodies himself and his customized software automatically harmonizes the tracks.
“My plan is to sonify some of the early tracks recorded with cloud chambers. I was thinking of a piano trio,” Vicinanza told iSGTW. The resulting music (.mp3) sounds a little like scales being played simultaneously — one ascending in notes and the other descending.
“Displays of these events are perfectly symmetric tracks spiraling in opposite directions. Their sonification will be two symmetric melodies, moving in opposite directions,” said Vicinanza, a network engineer at Dante (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe), Cambridge.
It’s not the first time the engineer has merged art with science. Previous works include music written using data from volcanic seismograms performed by the City Dance Ensemble, and 2,000-year-old Greek music re-created by his troupe, the Lost Sounds Orchestra.
2012 marks 101 years since the invention of Wilson cloud chambers by Charles Thomas Rees Wilson, a Scottish physicist. This year is also the 60th anniversary of the invention of the bubble chamber, by American physicist Donald Glaser, and the first observation of the positron.
Anonymous said,
I'm sorry, just curious. When has Jonny Lee Miller proved to be a terrible actor? What have you seen him in? He's not my favorite, but I've always enjoyed his work (especially in Trainspotting.)
Aside from the trailers for Elementary, where he sounds like he’s reading directly from the script while he acts, I’ve seen him in Mansfield Park (the 1999 one), Dracula 2000, and AEon Flux. Admittedly, the last one made everyone it touched seem like a terrible actor, but his performance in Dracula 2000 kind of turned me off of him forever. The writing seems decent for his character, though, so I might be able to look past it, and I’ve heard he’s good in that play… Frankenstein, is it? Some Victorian horror novel adapted into a play.
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I know everyone’s in love with Brynjolf, but I do everything in the guild for Delvin. I get such squishy feelings when he invites me to have a drink or praises me. In fact, I will only do jobs from Delvin—never Vex.
Everyone on tumblr either hates Elementary because it’s not BBC’s Sherlock or loves Elementary because it’s not BBC’s Sherlock.
To everyone who can’t reblog the trailer without saying “YES THIS WILL BE THE GREATEST THING, OMG FUCK YOU BBC’S SHERLOCK FANDOM” or “FUCK THIS SHIT IT’S NOT BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH”:
I’ve got my hopes. I’ve got my doubts. Lucy Liu is fabulous and I like what they’ve done with Watson’s character based on the early previews and behind-the-scenes footage. Jonny Lee Miller has proven to be nothing but a terrible actor. CBS is behind How I Met Your Mother, which is among the best American television shows out right now. They are also behind The Big Bang Theory, which is one of the worst.
But guys. Guys. Can we at least hold off on the comparisons to BBC’s adaptation until it fucking premiers? You can do all the side-by-sides you like after that. I don’t care. Yes, it probably was made because of the success of the BBC show, but that doesn’t mean it’s in anyway going to be similar to it. It’s an American show. It will probably be 50% CSI-esque crime drama, 50% actual attempts at adapting the Sherlock stories. They might even make Moriarty a professor of something.
Honestly, I just don’t want to have to use tumblr saviour to block everything Sherlock related simply because nobody will shut the fuck about the other show in either tag. I’m not saying you have to like Elementary, or that you have to like BBC’s Sherlock. Just that you all need to stop debating which one is better when one of them hasn’t even come out yet. Because it’s completely fucking stupid.
But for anyone who wants to speculate on the show in regards to the Arthur Conan Doyle canon, casting choices, whatever else: let’s chat! I’m dying to talk to somebody about my burning desire for Joan Watson to be a lesbian and have her marry Mary Morstan at some point. And let’s not ignore how hard I want someone from the Joss Whedon crew to be in an episode. Or Alexis Denisof as Moriarty. Actually, please do ignore that.
This is the first time I’ve ever understood authors who accidentally became experts on what they were writing about.
I’ve read three 100+ page long essays on John Hawkwood, plus at least ten 50+ page essays on the free companies, at least two of which were specifically on the White Company. I’ve read two fictional accounts - one only loosely based off of him, Arthur Conan Doyle’s The White Company, and one which is more direct, Marion Polk Angellotti’s Sir John Hawkwood. I’ve basically drained all the resources available to me for information on this man… for the sake of a fucking werewolf novel.
What has my life become?
