Solar Beat

April 5th, 02010 by Alexander Rose - Twitter: @zander

Click the image above to see the Solar Beat page aand make sure your sound is turned on.

Click the image above to see the Solar Beat page aand make sure your sound is turned on.

Solar Beat is a project by White Vinyl Designs that uses a virtual Orrery as a type of music box.  Turn on your sound and click the image above to see what type of music our solar system makes…  (thanks to Chris Baldwin for sending this in)

This entry was posted on Monday, April 5th, 02010 at 3:03 am and is filed under Long Term Art.

  • http://annosphere.com John Goodman

    Can someone with an ear more musical than mine please identify the tones produced by each of the planets?

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  • d9point0

    @john – tones are 1, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19 steps along a diatonic scale (do, do, mi, so, la, ti, do, re, mi, so). since there is no explanation on the site i have no idea if the selected tone relates in some way to the planet and its position or if (more likely) the tones were selected because they sound nice.

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  • http://www.personal-development.info/binauralbeats.html Binaural Beats

    Solar beats eh? Interesting.. Never heard of it but I am willing to try and check this on. Bookmarked!

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