The data sent to Earth by the Voyager 1 and 2 probes was converted into a musical duet by Domenico Vincenza. And what does space sound like?
Musician and physicist Domenico Vicinanza combined the data sent by the Voyager 1 and 2 probes from space for 36 years and transformed it into a musical duet. He used as many as 320 thousand probe measurements for it. As he says, the whole tune is based on the average behavior of cosmic rays measured by the two probes. "We simply read the data that we otherwise have in a numerical table with our ears," he explained. Data from Voyager 1 are thus musically presented by piano and harp, and strings from Voyager 2. At the end of March, the concert trio will also play music live in Cern, Switzerland.
The Voyager 1 and 2 probes were launched into space in 1977, and they were intended to explore the planets of our solar system, which are farthest from the Sun. Both probes are still active and represent the most distant human-made objects from Earth. Last year, Voyager 1 left our solar system and entered interstellar space, from which it continues to send data. Voyager 1 still has enough energy to travel through space until 2025.
