Call for submissions: IDM Tribute to Black Holes!

cool... one down... will make it your way soon!

i have all this new equipment and i barely know how to use it! i'll definately try, but really it's going to be a fist fight with these "electric boxes"

I hope to enter several

  zazen said:

that's the name of one of my tracks!

all i can think of at the moment is reversed bassdrums

but anyway, i'm going to buy a new computer for this, make 10 tracks and submit none of them.

but really, is it ok to submit a few tracks? i'd be more likely to submit if it is.

yah he said in the OP you can submit as many as you like

I could envelope the selection committee in a black hole sized mass of algorithmically generated tracks... but I think I won't.

  ten fingers ten toes said:

yah he said in the OP you can submit as many as you like

 

I could envelope the selection committee in a black hole sized mass of algorithmically generated tracks... but I think I won't.

oh, i did read but missed that.

Yeah it feels kinda suck that I didn't get in on last years, I think I'm gonna try to get something out.

Definitely trying out for this.

giddy up, i'm down yo!

I must add one thing then I will leave it alone. Smoking a Pipe Inside a Space Helmet (SPISH) played Black Holes tighter than Space Stations, I was very suprised by that.

SPISH was the least electronic music thing on that list by a longshot. Any success was retardation and not IDMness on the part of SPISH.

playa hatin per usual.

this is the Black Holes with Dean Garcia right?

Yeah, I'll bang out a track. Actually, I have to write a few tracks for classes and will probably turn in the black hole track for a grade :laughing:

this could be the inspiration i need to open a music app and actually create something but i think i'll leave it to the kids this year. good luck kids.

and may i recommend reading the comic 'black hole' for inspiration

Sounds cool. I will have a go at making something for it.

I'm definitely going to send something this year!

i'm gonna do it

Its a shame black holes really don't make any sound per say

  acid1 said:

Its a shame black holes really don't make any sound per say

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Black Hole Strikes Deepest Musical Note Ever Heard

 

Astronomers have detected the deepest note ever generated in the cosmos, a B-flat flying through space like a ripple on an invisible pond. No human will actually hear the note, because it is 57 octaves below the keys in the middle of a piano.

 

The detection was made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and announced at a press conference today.

 

The note strikes an important chord with astronomers, who say it may help them understand how the universe's largest structures, called galaxy clusters, evolve.

 

The sound waves appear to be heating gas in the Perseus galaxy cluster, some 250 million light-years away, potentially solving a longstanding mystery about why the gas surrounding this cluster and others does not chill out as existing theory predicts.

 

The gas is apparently dancing excitedly to the eons-long drone of a deep B-flat.

 

Black hole music

 

Astronomers were not surprised to find the supermassive black hole making a strong sub-bass sound. Though these greatest known matter sinks are by nature dark and invisible, they create bright and chaotic environments in which many forms of radiation -- from radio waves to visible light to X-rays -- have been recorded. These electromagnetic waves all travel at the speed of light.

 

Sound waves are similar, but they travel far more slowly and are more physical in nature. Sound you hear, for example, can be produced by the visible compression and expansion of a stereo speaker. The waves physically compress the stuff through which they move, be it air, water, or hot interstellar gas.

 

Other studies have shown that the riotous activity around black holes -- where gas is accelerated to nearly light-speed -- produces many notes that are, all together, much like music. Collectively, the cosmos produce, scientists believe, a cacophonic symphony of inaudible tunes.

 

Musical production appears to be ubiquitous in Nature. Scientists often call it flicker noise, and it has also been detected in the X-ray outputs of magnetic fields within our solar system. Even Earth hums its own tune. Musical analogies are found in everything from seascapes to brainwaves.

 

Way out of range

 

The 53 hours of Chandra observations revealed a note that is more than a million billion times deeper than what you can hear.

 

"We have observed the prodigious amounts of light and heat created by black holes," said Andrew Fabian of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, England, and leader of the study. "Now we have detected the sound."

 

"The Perseus sound waves are much more than just an interesting form of black hole acoustics," said Fabian's colleague Steve Allen. "These sound waves may be the key in figuring out how galaxy clusters grow."

 

Scientists had previously observed large amounts of hot gas infusing clusters. Given what's known, the gas should cool over time, however. Cooler gas would create areas of lower pressure near the center of a cluster, causing fringe gas to fall inward. In the process, trillions of stars would form.

 

This isn't what astronomers see when they look at clusters, though.

 

The Perseus cluster is the brightest known in X-rays, making it a good target for study. It has two large, bubble-shaped cavities that extend away from a central black hole. The cavities are formed by jets of material ejected from the black hole's surroundings, and the jets have been suspected of heating the outlying gas. But scientists couldn't see how.

 

A special image-processing technique was used to bring out subtle changes in brightness that revealed the presence of ripples -- the sound waves.

 

Fabian and Allen figure the sound waves, observed spreading out from the cavities, heat the gas. The amount of energy involved is staggering, equal to what would be produced if 100 million stars exploded.

 

A single, long-sounding note is produced by a sound wave in which the waves are the same size and shape continuously. The newfound note has been sounding, the researchers say, for about 2.5 billion years.

pwn

Well at least I know the tonic for my bassline now :P