Motherboard’s Space Composer: Turning Solar Activity into Sound
A classically trained composer transforms solar data into tunes on VICE’s tech channel’s documentary series Spaced Out NEW YORK, N.Y. (January 16, 2013) – MOTHERBOARD today premieres the latest in its Spaced Out series, The Space Composer, investigating the art of turning data from the sun into sound. Sonification specialist Robert Alexander takes us through the solar cycle as it rises and falls, using the solar data to create some of the most interesting and unique music to have ever graced the planet.
Watch The Space Composer on Motherboard here: http://youtu.be/kcqiLvHiACQ
Watch past episodes of Spaced Out here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTlJK3kwZIbSOF8drdNvWQAoPqowDwpzS
Motherboard’s Spaced Out series is a 360-degree look at space and the people who love it, who explore it, who wonder about it.
ABOUT MOTHERBOARD
Motherboard is an online magazine and video channel dedicated to the intersection of technology, science and humans. Launched by VICE in 2009, Motherboard raises its eyebrows at the people and things that are making our weird and wonderful present and future, with news, commentary, in-depth reporting, photos, and original video documentaries. Dipping liberally into politics, art, sex, drugs, war, design, nature, space, history and sci-fi, Motherboard skips the useless tech hype to keep its cascade of tabs open to the stuff you should know.
ABOUT VICE
VICE was launched in 1994 as a ‘punk zine’ and has since expanded into a leading global youth media company with bureaus in over 30 countries. VICE operates the world’s premier original online video destination, VICE.COM, an international network of digital channels, a television production studio, a magazine, a record label, an in-house creative services agency and a book-publishing division. VICE’s digital channels include The Creators Project, dedicated to the arts and creativity, Motherboard, covering cultural happenings in technology, and Noisey, a music discovery channel. To date, VICE boasts over 60 established shows that cover everything from current events to sex to investigative reporting to music to kittens.
