#42

UPDATE: I’ve just received this e-mail from the lead astronmer, Michaël Gillon, of the TRAPPIST-1 discovery team. I wrote him to let him know of this project, and this page. He replied:

Thx a lot, that’s amazing! I’m now in the Atacama desert commissioning the first SPECULOOS telescope, and listening to these nice music compositions while watching the stars is just an awesome experience!

Cheers,
Michael

But wait, there’s more:

PS: I suggest you to have a look at this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04166 :wink:

So, I dig into that paper - published just 6 days ago - and find what he’s hinting at: They’ve narrowed down the orbital period of the seventh planet, h, and: it’s resonant, too!

It’s an octave below planet f, so F₁ in the scale I gave. And like the pattern, this one is flat from the just or equal temperment note by ~44 cents - so double the “off” of note above, and shy of half a semitone. But, at 42 Hz, it’ll be like a deep tone on a pipe organ!

Yes, my web page has been updated!

- Mark

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#43

That is stupendous — both his correspondence, and the 7th planet!

#44

For my Junto, that’s also good news! I was off a couple of hz in the song, but now it is perfect :blush:

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#45

I wasn’t going to submit this track at first because I broke the rules a bit… but it’s connected to a previous Junto, so I’m posting it anyway in the event you may enjoy.

I started this track originally for Junto #269 (Duet Portion), which was compose a single-take piece of music for someone else to duet with.

I had two projects I wanted to do that Saturday morning: first, write the Junto track for #269, and afterwards start composing a whole album of music for the Trappist-1 system (the discovery was announced a few days before), just to see if I could do it. It was going well, but I felt this piano improv worked really well with the rest of the Trappist material, so it became a part of that project. I had also fiddled with it a bit, so it made it ineligible for the Junto.

But now this Junto 272 comes, and I’m feeling like the original piano improv (now called Planet D) is connected in a way to this current Junto, even though it doesn’t formulate to the required rules, it is almost a track from the future… (cue dramatic strings).

https://soundcloud.com/happypuppy2/planet-d

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#46

https://soundcloud.com/benn-demole/new-worlds-disquiet0272

Inspired to us the timing of the orbits and as notes to create some minimal orchestral work… then life started communicating…

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#47

I am stil finessing my efforts.
I found the following pure data patch very useful- it is by Dimitri Paile and is called tremtonett3 and is archived here…http://audioarchives.tumblr.com/
(its the 3rd one down)

this patch runs 3 sin waves you can alter the pitch and trem rate. I have inelegantly hacked this to play the 6 pitches pulsing away at the relevant ratios (i used b note as my root). it has an oscillascope display for added fun. happy to email a copy to anyone intereted.

richard

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#48

Received a message from the other principle astronomer, Amaury Triaud:

This is pretty great! The resonances were also something that I had linked to music. It is wonderful that others saw that as well.

He also wrote to say they’d be updating the system’s official home page, TRAPPIST-1, with links to this project and the playlist.

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#49

Modular two oscillator drone using Monome Teletype alternating between the root, 4th and first octave. Sometimes in unison, sometimes douphonically.

On top of the drone I’m improvising rhythms using the remaining higher notes with the four voices of the Analog Keys.

(Just realized I overlooked the time recommendation. Sorry).

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#50


Simple response to this weeks Junto

I took the numbers provided and plugged them into Gnaural (http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/)
that gave me a 73min .wav, which I have trimmed down.

(I feel like I’ve fudged a steady state out of something temporal, but it’s hard to comprehend such things that dwarf the human scale )
(also it was nice to not use “music software”)

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#51

My track is here: https://soundcloud.com/plusch/spheres-in-space-disquiet0272

For this project, I constructed a self-playing Pure Data patch. When the patch was completed, I pressed “record” in Audacity and set the patch playing. After the patch turned itself off, I stopped recording, removed DC offset, normalized the audio, and trimmed silence from the start and finish.

For the frequencies and timing of the arpeggios, I used three sets of numbers that have the planetary ratios:
100, 133.333, 200, 300, 500, 800
150, 200, 300, 450, 750, 1200
300, 400, 600, 900, 1500, 2400

There was a main counter that triggered everything: the arpeggios, a 50 Hz bass note, and a noise burst. Sound sources were sine waves, sawtooth waves, and square waves. All except the bass note went through reverb and delay.

https://soundcloud.com/plusch/spheres-in-space-disquiet0272

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#52

Short piece using the orbital frequencies of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system as semitone intervals and polyrhythms.

Performed on modular synthesizer, sequenced on Monome Ansible and Teletype.

The melodic sequence was created by building a Teletype scene that used six trigger inputs to trigger the six notes. Each output would cycle through the four CV/Trigger outs going to different oscillators and envelopes. (Oscillators used are two Mannequins Mangroves, and the Make Noise Mysteron).

The six inputs were triggered from two Ansible Kria instances, triggering each of the size based on their frequency ratio to each other to create polyrhythms.

The background drone was performed manually on a touch keyboard, playing the same semitone intervals over long periods.

Noise and static is meant to be reminiscent of radio/radiation interference. Generated randomly.

Thanks to @mzero for doing the math.

(Completed before the frequency of the 7th planet was released, so only six are included)

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#53

https://soundcloud.com/zedkah/cosmic-plainsong-disquiet-0272

My method was to use the pitches starting with the root note b ( B2 -123.47, E3-164.81, B3 -246.94, F#4-369.99, D#5-622.25, B5-987.77) and to have each note (drone) pulse/throb in keeping with the same ratios(1,4/3,2,3,5,8).
I realised this twice. Once in protools using the organ plug in and a amplitude filter tied to the tempo. The organ also had its own pulsing wheel thing going on which I hadn’t quite factored for. The organ sound was a bit gritty/ dirty.
I also had a go at realising the whole thing in pure data- which was made surprisingly easy by finding the patch tremtonett3:dimittripaile2011 - all the difficult stuff was done I added 3 more channels and changed a few values. this gave a cleaner, purer realisation.

The two versions (12 tracks as I did one planet at a time) were all mixed and merged. with an overall arc of clean -> dirty -> clean but wobbly. A wide stereo that narrows down
A subtle touch of comp and rev to keep it smooth.

Dimitris pd patch is archived here

3 Nasa space samples are also included
Juno: Morse code “HI” received from Earth ( around 3 seconds in)
Cassini: Saturn Radio Emissions #1 in the fade out
Voyager: Interstellar Plasma Sounds (1.30,3.10, 4.30)
all under Creative Commons License.
available at: https://soundcloud.com/nasa

thanks

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#54

Hi, first post and first track.
Here I used the frequencies for making a drone with Droneo app and the orbits for a beat with Patterning.
Also some background notes from animoog.
Nothing fancy, here it is:
https://soundcloud.com/gensek80/orbite-frequenze-disquiet0272

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#55

https://soundcloud.com/krzyzis/just-a-quick-trip-to-the-cornerstore-disquiet0272

To manage the trip from the slowest to the fastest of the planets of T-1, we first had to bake a pie. Just kidding, we’ll do that during the trip.

First we set two spacey pads. They will be playing the notes corresponding to the rotation speeds. Then we link them to six gates (yes, six progressive gates). Each is set to gate at 1/X beats, with the numbers corresponding to each body in the system. These will slowly open as we travel through the planet system, encountering the slowest planet first. We’ll hear the jumps it’s spin creates in our instruments. On to the next, where the instruments will jump more, and more, and so forth. (Out of character comment: only two gates are open at once because a) otherwise we hear nothing of the pads anymore and b) you don’t want to jettison all the air, do you!?).

On top, we place a synth travelling on the notes. It repeats a few times. During each new planet encounter, another synth holds the note/spin/planet we’re meeting.

Now, don’t forget to take your pie out of the oven. No windows you can open to get rid of that smell if you burn it.

EDIT: The tempo’s 42. Because obviously. Or if not, (7planets x 6freqs).

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#56

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/xii-parsecs-disquiet-0272

A piece consisting of sine and triangle waves set at the appropriate frequencies.

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#57

First Junto!

Used the ratios as pitches, building from a low E on guitar (didn’t catch the 7th planet). Looped using a Line 6 M9, played through a few times, then recorded in one take.

https://soundcloud.com/unknown_known/resonant-orbits-disquiet0272

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#58

That is very cool. Thanks for the update.

#59

So long since I’ve put one up …
Lines log in even works, well that helps - and a lot of things lead to the planets these days, so why not have a go?
Multiple effects chains live captured in Reaper, single run through guitar improv.
Slow, gradual dragging orbits, and some peace, for now.

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#60

https://soundcloud.com/glenn-sogge/the-trappists-disquiet0272

Using the Mai Tai synthesizer that comes with the PreSonus Studio One DAW, I created 6 variations of a patch. Six tracks were recorded of the six tones described in the detailed instructions. The order of the pitches for each track was determined by a random method. The six tracks were then delayed by a random amount each to produce overlapping, changing chords. Some equalization and reverberation was added during mixdown.

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#61

Super to see your name in the thread.