The Current13:00Turning deep space data into music
Music can often transport you to another time and place. But now a Montreal composer is bringing listeners far out into the cosmos with a piece of music created from NASA’s data on the Milky Way.
“At the end of the piece, especially … I’m focusing in on the black hole that’s at the centre of the galaxy. And you get this feeling of stars spiralling toward the centre,” said Sophie Kastner, composer of Where Parallel Lines Converge.
“I wanted to have all of these pingy, like, high textures that are just, like, continuously spiralling,” she told The
