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.

Apollo 13 is playing out live, now, in a story told in newly-restored sound

The human experience has been changed by images of space, but the power of sound to tell the story is unfolding in new ways. So here’s a different kind of live stream this weekend – re-broadcast from inside NASA Mission Control, 50 years ago.

Peter Kirn - April 11, 2020

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

Maybe it’s time for the idea of a “commons” to get a new boost. Whatever the reason, BBC’s 16,000 sound effects are available to download – but with strings attached.

Peter Kirn - April 24, 2018

Listen to space’s spookiest sounds with this NASA playlist

Peter Kirn - October 30, 2017

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

Peter Kirn - August 21, 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

Free sounds are a window into space exploration on Earth

Peter Kirn - March 3, 2016

Space Sounds from ESA are Now Free to Use on SoundCloud

Peter Kirn - July 21, 2015

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