Mickey Hart is out of this World

"I’m sonifiying these light waves, making them into sound.  [There are] sophisticated algorithms and I have scientists [who] work with me carefully on this because I’m not a mathematician and I’m not a scientist. Then I take them and sound design them [to] make them into what we hear on the whole Earth — music. The sound of space isn’t necessarily music. I didn’t want it to be a science project. I wanted to dazzle these sounds; I turned them into musicological sound marks, whether they be rhythm, harmony, or melody. [I wanted] something to do with music. (Mickey Hart)"

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