We are so excited to be a part of this festival and we are looking forward to seeing you in November. The Story of Space is less than a month away! Any donations would be greatly appreciated.
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Our exhibit location has been confirmed - Hall 1 of the Goa Science Centre in Miramar! The dimensions of the space can be seen below (highlighted in red). We will be located directly across from an exhibit on marine ecology, exploring the pollution of Earth's waters. Everything is beginning to fall into place, and we are thrilled to be a part of this interdisciplinary festival!
We are in the stages of planning out the space for our exhibit. These are rough renders of the arrangement. Section 1 will feature a background of the atomic science featured in the exhibit and videos explaining our process. Section 2 has vertical and horizontal LED panel displays with headphones. Participants may listen to the sonifications of the elements and match up the corresponding spectral lines on the horizontal displays to those on the vertical displays. Section 3 is a "walk-through" of a star. Using an ultrasonic sensor, we will be able to calculate a participant's distance from the wall, which represents their distance from the center of a star. As they walk closer to the wall (closer to the center of the star) the audio will change based on the densities of the various elements. Finally, section 4 will be reveal the limitations of our own senses and explore how other animals observe the world.
Today, many hours were spent photographing the Chladni Plate patterns for each element. We changed our range from 200-800Hz to 50-1600Hz. After playing around with the frequencies, this seems to be the best range so that the audio renderings sound pleasant and the plates produce interesting patterns. The photographs were stacked and colored appropriately based on the frequency. The opacity of each layer was changed to represent the relative intensity of each spectral line. Pictured below are the renderings for Barium and Calcium. I find the blues and greens in Barium to be quite lovely. And I like how Calcium is asymmetric. Calcium has many frequencies in the lower range which produce interesting effects on the Chladni Plate, one of them being 141.8Hz which produces that half-circle shape.
We've made some progress on our method for turning the light frequencies from each element into frequencies of sound. After much experimentation, we've found a range that both accurately portrays the frequencies with a mathematical method, sounds pleasant, and has a large enough frequency range to create visually appealing patterns on the Chladni plate. Here are some examples. The Sound of Carbon:
The Sound of Aluminum:
The Sound of Iron:
There's 9 more days left in the crowdfunding campaign for the Story of Space festival in Goa, India. Please help my teammate and I fund our project (and many others) for the festival. It is part of an interdisciplinary experience involving artists, philosophers, and scientists. Here's a link to the main site of the Story Of Foundation:
http://www.thestoryof.org/space2017/ As well as the crowdfunding page: https://www.ketto.org/fundraiser/space2017 Please donate, share, and spread the word. We would appreciate any assistance no matter how large or small. Thank you. |
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