Other the bell mechanical
lonesome for the heliopause [disquiet0089-vger]

There are two distinct eras: The era before Humans had managed to (verifiably) launch an artifact into interstellar space, and the era afterwards. You now live in the latter.

Long after the pyramids have been rubbed down into dust, long after the Sun has swollen red and boiled off the oceans... she'll still be out there.

Godspeed, little Voyager. One day, you will be all that's left of us.

Process:
Used AudioHijack to capture the two 12-second plasma samples. Then loaded these into Ableton Live and created 8 permutations (the original two, plus selected transpositions-- I chose the numbers {-1, -2, -3, -5, -7, -11} because those are prime). These are being played in and out throughout the piece.

Also added additional public-domain space audio (available at nasa.gov/connect/sounds/#.UjSkVGTXhyH). The lonesome beeping is a slightly modified sample of Sputnik's famous tracking signal from 1957.

Finally added some low-level 'musical content' using one of Live's Instrument Racks to build a bell and space sound.

Creative commons. Feel free to remix with attribution.
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Disquiet Junto Project 0089: V’Ger

This week’s project is as follows. On its voyage beyond the bounds of our solar system, the Voyager 1 recorded two bursts of sound, which NASA has uploaded as part of the information video at the following URL:

youtube.com/watch?v=LIAZWb9_si4

The musical noise can be heard in two 12-second segments, from 0:12 to 0:24 and then from 0:33 to 0:45.

Those sounds will serve as the source material for your track. Now that Voyager 1 has left the solar system, you will write a short piece of goodbye music to send it on its way, using these sounds recorded in the outer space. You can add whatever you want to them, and you can transform the noise as you see fit, but you should retain elements of the original source material so that it remains recognizable to the listener. In particular, pay attention to the source audio’s melodic content.

Deadline: Monday, September 16, 2013, at 11:59pm wherever you are.

Length: Your track should have a duration of of between one and five minutes.

More on this 89th Disquiet Junto project, in which the sounds of interstellar space are used to make “goodbye music” for the Voyager 1 space probe, at:
disquiet.com/2013/09/12/disqui...squiet0089-vger

Source audio courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Iowa via:
youtube.com/watch?v=LIAZWb9_si4

Special thanks to Mark Ward (mark-ward.org) for having suggested this material as the subject for a Disquiet Junto project.

More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto