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Creating music based on quantitative data from variable stars

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2018-11-08 v1 Popular Physics

Abstract

In this work we show a technique that allows for the musical interpretation of the brightness variations of stars. This method allows composers a lot of freedom to incorporate their own ideas into the score, based on the melodic line generated from the quantitative data obtained from the stars. There are a wide number of possible applications for this technique, including avant-garde music creation, teaching and promotion of the association between music and science.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1811.02930,
  title  = {Creating music based on quantitative data from variable stars},
  author = {C. A. Droppelmann and R. E. Mennickent},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.02930},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers

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