New Music from an Orchestra of Radioactive Isotopes
For the weekend –
A tweet led me to a fantastically inventive kind of music. The Radioactive Orchestra comprises 3175 radioisotopes. From the website: “Melodies are created by simulating what happens in the atomic nucleus when it decays from its excited nuclear state…Every isotope has a unique set of possible excited states and decay patterns…”
The project, sponsored by a Swedish nuclear safety organization, KSU, encourages visitors to select among the graphed isotopes, listen and learn. You can try composing music on your own, or you can check out a production by DJ Alex Boman on YouTube:
Super-cool.
h/t: Maria Popova, @brainpicker, who picked up on this last August at Brainpickings. And to @JohnNosta, who sent yesterday’s tweet.
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This was so interesting, thanks for bringing to our attention something so creative and unique. I’m not sure what it is, but I will forward the link to my sons, one a music major and another a chemistry and physics student. They can explain it to me. I just enjoyed it. Have a great weekend.
You too, Mindy. Glad it’s of interest!