Gold Pyrite.mix-The sound of mineral stone by MOON◗ SOUND ART

Recommendation: Use studio headphones or high quality audio system. Two sounds are included, piano version and deep frequency sound.

Natural mineral stones are: gold Pyrite (FeS2), silver Galena (PbS) and black Sphalerite (ZnS). These minerals were used for further processing into sound. Digitally obtained data has been converted into two different types of transmission. One is a software that produces sound from the image called Photo Sounder made by a software maker Michel Rouzic, and the other is Musical Algorithm made by Professor Jonathan M. Middelton. The outcome from the Photo Sounder is a deep frequency sound and from the Musical Algorithm the sound is rendered in a piano version. The sounds, ie music from the Musical Algorithm, result in an aleatoric music in which some element of the composition is left to chance. Although everything is left to chance, the music sounds partly harmonious and meaningful. When put together, deep frequency sound and piano version, the result is almost a meditative experience of a relatively harmonious but abstract music. My aim is to make you aware of these stones and their essential role in our existence and whole civilisation. We are all connected materially and unmaterially to mineral stones as a result of the mutation of stardust. The realization of my research based art project titled New Europe is multi-layered. I realised this project by arriving to a poetic outcome from a scientific analysis of mineral stones – sonifed X-ray data.

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