It’s 36-years since the launch of the Voyager-1 space probe and it has now officially entered interstellar space. One of the proofs of this fact are these recordings from Voyager-1, fed through radio equipment to render them audible to the human ear.
I sent the link for this You Tube video to Marc Weidenbaum who runs the Disquiet Junto project on SoundCloud and was delighted to find he’d decided to use this audio as the source material for this weeks project.
This is my contribution below:
As the person who suggested this Junto topic I thought I’d better make sure I submit a contribution this week! I hadn’t really given any thought to the practicalities of how to do it before I suggested it.
Problem No. 1 – How to extract the audio from the You Tube video?
I went for the quick and dirty approach of plugging a field recorder into the sound card.
The background drone is a loop from an earlier experiment that had the right kind of feel.
I also stretched and reversed the NASA source audio and also used it in it’s original form with a variety of Filter Delays around the middle of the track.
I’ve gone for feeling and atmosphere above exact adherence to the source material.
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/disquiet0089-vger/
Source audio courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Iowa via:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIAZWb9_si4
More details on the Disquiet Junto at:
soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/
Voyager 1 – Plasma Wave – disquiet0089-vger by Mark Ward is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence.
