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Francesco
Rampichini in
collaboration with
Fabio
Peri - Scientific
Director - Civic
Planetarium “U. Hoepli”, Milano (I)
introduces Hear
the Stars
a
journey across constellations through interactive acousmetric maps
 Orion's acousmetric map. INTRODUCTION
Discover
the constellations through Acousmetry®,
by way of interactive sound maps based on the astrocartography, was an
of the
first applications that I believe achievable, starting from the
theorization of my
system.
I
was
convinced that the development of this idea would open, also to
blind
people, through the experience of listening, a sensitive further and
original way to know those bright aggregation of points in which the
human imagination sorts the sky.
After
a couple of years of tests and observations I submitted my project to
Fabio Peri,
Scientific Director of the Planetarium of Milan, that shared it with
enthusiasm.
I
came thus, on a continuous experiments and comparisons, at the creation
of a
dedicated interface allowing - with a simple movement of a mouse – to
listen to
the map of a constellation, and its single stars, identifying its
location and
magnitude (the second through the light/sound intensity matching).
Stars
and galaxies send us their light radiation after a very huge distances
crossing.
Since the speed of light in vacuum is approximately 300,000 km/sec.,
the Moon we
see - at an average distance of 376.000 km - is of a second ago, the
Sun of
approximately eight minutes before, while Proxima Centauri,
the closer
star after the Sun, is already of four years ago (40,000 billion km).
The
Hubble telescope allowed us to photograph galaxies whose signal started
eight
billion years ago! Therefore, looking at the Sky, we penetrate not only
the space,
but also the time.
It
is not a coincidence that in Sanskrit, ancient language of the
Indo-European
family from which come many of our words, “sound” is say Svara and
"light" is Svar : the two phenomena are united in
their
phonetic affinity.
Here
are conjugate the intents of an operation without precedent, aimed to
the widest audience to whom we want to tell:
"light is sound, listen to it".
© Francesco Rampichini 2006-2010 to learn more write to: info@musikatelier.it
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