Jupiter -- part 1 of 2 (1st draft) I ran across some amazing audio recordings on YouTube made by NASA's Voyager I & II probes as they swung close to Jupiter in 1979. The recordings are of Jupiter's magnetosphere and the surrounding solar wind, which have frequencies extending through the human auditory range (20Hz to 20kHz). I find these recordings quite haunting and beautiful, and decided to perform an experiment in which the Jupiter audio is gradually replaced by my own looped vocalizations. This composition is definitely influenced by the music of György Ligeti (see "Atmospheres" here: www.youtube.com ) plus definitely some looping and improvisational sensibilities borrowed from Robert Fripp (see "Frippertronics" here: www.youtube.com — appropriately dating from 1979 as well). In this twenty-minute ambient piece, you hear the original NASA recordings by themselves for roughly eighty seconds, at which point I begin to fade in the first of three vocal loops. The remaining vocal loops fade in and grow in intensity over the next several minutes. By the ten minute mark (halfway), the original NASA recording fades out completely so that •everything• you hear beyond this point is produced purely by my human vocalizations. In addition to my singing, various ambient noises are introduced, including a low frequency rumble produced by lightly blowing on the pickup element of a condenser microphone (these microphones have remarkable low end response characteristics). Towards the ...
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