Acousmetric
journey across the constellations through interactive maps
What
A
journey
across Zodiacal (and other) constellations, their myth, prejudice
and
reality, that involve astronomy, poetry and music, through Acousmetry®,
a new
language that allow to translate in sounds the constellations maps, in
a kind of “auditory
sheet”.
Innovative aspects
Hear
the
stars conjugates the intents of a definitely new enterprise,
addressed
to the large public, which includes blind people, whom we want
to say: the light
is sound, listen to it.
Thus
offers
a new sensorial way for the knowledge ofconstellations,
that send us their light radiation after travelling immense
distances. 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 1 second ago,
the Sun of
approximately 8 minutes before, and Proxima Centauri, the closer
star after
the Sun, is already 4 years ago (40,000 billion km).
The
Hubble
telescope has photographed galaxies whose signal has started
8 billion
years ago: for this, looking at the sky, we penetrate not only the
space, but
also the time.
Implementation
The
acting voice introduces the acousmetric code and lead the
exploration
of the constellations, transformed into sounds and animated in an
alternation of poetic melodrama on original texts
(Ben note
stelle e nuove).
It is not a coincidence that in Sanskrit, ancient
of the Indo-European language from which comes many of our words, sound
is "Svara" and light is "Svar": the two phenomena are
united in
their phonetic affinity.
© Francesco
Rampichini 2006-2015
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Appropriate arrangement of
an acousmetric audience.
(click to enlarge)
Project
for an exhibition::
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