Inner and Outer Space

Ah, space. The following items (all but the last) were excerpted from various archives of interstellar recordings. Many of them are strangely beautiful and really quite unnerving. How is it that solar winds penetrating magnetic fields could sound like wolves howling? Or that the frequency of ambient plasma is indistinguishable from a Theremin? Or that the Northern Lights sound like the echoey chirps you might hear in a tropical rain forest? Or that the lightning on Saturn make noises like sliding pennywhistles?

Inner Space

[Atmospheric Discharges]

1. Whistlers Get Adobe Flash player

2. Proton Whistlers Get Adobe Flash player

3. Multi-Hop Whistlers Get Adobe Flash player

4. Auroral Radiation Get Adobe Flash player

5. Chorus Get Adobe Flash player

Outer Space

[Heliospheric Radio Emissions]

1. Radio Saturn Get Adobe Flash player

2. Bow Shock Get Adobe Flash player

3. From the Magnetosphere Get Adobe Flash player

4. Jovian Cyclotron Get Adobe Flash player

5. Chirps Get Adobe Flash player

Dr. Who

[by Ron Grainer/BBC]

1. Opening Theme (Original): “Dr. Who” Get Adobe Flash player

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