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Les musiciens aventureux et les sound-designers ont toujours été à la recherche d'ambiances sensées représenter le cosmos, avec plus ou moin de réussite. Il est aujourd'hui possible de le faire sans trop se tromper grâce au Kosmophone !

Le Kosmophone est un spectromètre qui capte les ondes émises par les rayons Gamma de notre système solaire entre 3 et 7 million d'éléctrovolt, et les retranscrit en signaux Midi pouvant ainsi controler n'importe quel synthé.

Le site : http://www.kosmophone.com/

Les images : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO0BVBMRv6g 

Les sons : http://www.kosmophone.com/sounds/kosmo_voices.mp3
              http://www.kosmophone.com/sounds/kosmo_c65.mp3
              http://www.kosmophone.com/sounds/kosmo_duet.mp3
              etc....

Bon voyage !!!

"The Kosmophone is a gamma-ray spectrometer operating in the range of about 3 to 7 million electron-volts (MeV) controlling a MIDI music synthesizer.
This octave of the electromagnetic spectrum, about a million times higher frequency than the octave our eyes respond to, contains very little energy that originates in our solar system. Almost all of the energy in this band is a result of unbelievably energetic radiation coming from the far reaches of the universe, 'Cosmic Rays'. Fortunately, they tend not to make it all the way through the approximately 100 miles of air over our heads. As they smash their way through the atmosphere the collisions produce energetic emissions and it is these secondary emissions the Kosmophone responds to. The energy level of each detected event is measured and that information is sent to the MIDI control port of a music synthesizer. The 'cosmic data' is not altered or supplemented in any way and would be presumed to be completely random.
The measured distribution of energy values is indeed very uniform and the rate does not vary from local day to night. Apparently the normal output of our sun contains no significant gamma rays (which is a very good thing for us!) but they are produced in bursts during solar flares."