Three years of solar flares transformed into music: ESA x Maple Pools

See and hear what our nearest star and mass nuclear fusion reactor has been up to in the past three years. The solar show is captured by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission and new UV images and musical sonification.

NASA’s Webb telescope could transform how we imagine digital art, along with our cosmos

Amidst meaningful and justified disenchantment with digital media, NASA’s Webb offers a different course for understanding our relationship with technology. It offers a chance to peer into our existence with greater understanding. It could be this generation’s “Blue Marble” – looking instead outward and deep into time. And it promises to be more than one image – way more than just one.

Peter Kirn - July 12, 2022

Kraftwerk played live with an astronaut on the ISS – here’s how

Summer festivals? No, the most epic onstage moment for this summer has to be Kraftwerk jamming live with the International Space Station – and an iPad as the first electronic musical instrument in space.

Peter Kirn - July 23, 2018

BBC gives away 16k WAV sound effects, but disallows some uses

Peter Kirn - April 24, 2018

How magnetic oscillations of a comet became a new album of music

Peter Kirn - September 15, 2017

Set today’s solar eclipse to sound, with music picks, data, and NASA

Peter Kirn - August 21, 2017

Francesco Novara – Astron [EP] brings evocative, comet-inspired music

Peter Kirn - August 19, 2017

Now hear the audio from an ISS spacewalk – and sample and remix it

Peter Kirn - March 24, 2017

European Space Agency just gave away a bunch of space media for use

Peter Kirn - February 21, 2017

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