This is the B-side to 'Carmen of the Spheres' and is a planetary acoustic simulation from the perspective of someone sitting on Jupiter with the nine largest moons creating the harmony (courtesy of the usual octave-shifting ear horns of course!) For information about how all this nonsense works, please refer to "Carmen of the Spheres".
Click here to listen to the published CD in 160kbps MP3 format.
The piece is 23m48.207s long, which is itself an (inaudible) octave-shift of Jupiter's own orbital period.
The source WAV files for this piece are available. Click here to listen to the published CD in 160kbps MP3 format. You may also be interested in the 'A-side' to this piece, which is Carmen Of The Spheres.
The piece is a slightly tongue-in-cheek follow-up to "Carmen of the Spheres" and is intended to further illustrate the technique of octave-shifting large numbers to make audible pitches. The harmonic flavour here is less soft and "easy listening" and more based around suspensions and melodic fragments around the 3rd 4th and 5th of the major scale. The stereo pan groupings are by similarity of frequency, so that Io, Europa and Ganymede create 'beats' with each other (try their WAV files overlaid on their own to see what I mean, or listen with headphones). Those three moons have almost perfect harmonic orbits (see the data workbook). The other groupings are Amalthea/Himalia/Elara, which are also close together (in pitch-class flavour) and Thebe/Callisto/Pasiphae, which are all awkward fits and thus come out a bit deeper in pitch but not especially close to one another. I've placed this most 'diverse' trio in the centre pan area.
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