December 13, 2004
Astro Black Morphologies
Sounds of Science
Flow Motion's Astro Black Morphologies is a multimedia installation and sound-art performance based in a dialogue between contemporary astronomy, digital art and electronic music. The installation takes as its starting point the announcement by scientists Ian McHardy and Phil Uttley at Southampton University in 2002 that data readings of x-ray detritus from black hole Cygnus X1 were implicitly musical in structure.
In 2003 Flow Motion (artists and musicians Eddie George and Anna Piva) began Sounds of Science, a research project on cosmic music and music of the cosmos, commissioned by the Arts Catalyst and funded by the Arts Council of England - London. Dr Uttley gave Flow Motion access to his research data from Cygnus-X1. They then collaborated with astrophysicist Tim O'Brien at Jodrell Bank Observatory, converting this data from text to audible phenomena.
The converted X-ray data of Cygnus-X1 will be immersed in the transformative technologies of dub production by Flow Motion and generative design by Adrian Ward at Signwave for a real and sonic time based sound-art which utilises the sound-structured detritus of a black hole and the detritus-producing technologies of electronic music and digital imagery. Astro Black Morphologies is the first of a three-part multimedia, cross disciplinary project, 'Music & Science Lovers'.
Posted by jo at December 13, 2004 09:10 AM
