[microsound] Youngling Smiling Corners of Yoshikawa Crater

[Dara Shayda]

https://soundcloud.com/dara-o-shayda/for-whom-the-craters-smile

On 2014-01-08, at 2:29 PM, Dara Shayda <dara1339 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> https://soundcloud.com/dara-o-shayda/corners_of_yoshikawa_crater 
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> Cover: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17770 
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> This crater may host ice-rich deposits within its floor. Though in total shadow when it was imaged here on November 7, 2013, only a portion of the floor is permanently shadowed from the Sun's rays. The crisp rim and well-preserved field of secondary craters surrounding Yoshikawa mean that it is a relatively young crater, and any ice deposits within it must also be relatively young.
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> Crater image was filtered by the CornerFilter in Mathematica and instead of looking at the dominating crater arch, plethora of 'corners' were unearthed which then each become a note(s) in the melody and chords of the subsequent sonification by MetaSynth, and the Melodic-algorithm midification was performed by Melodyne, both time quantization and pitch were corrected as well:
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> files.lossofgenerality.com/yoshikawa_corner_PC_QT.mid
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> The resulting Midi file was played twice back to back, by instruments on Logic Pro namely Stratosphere and Anticipation Synthesizer>Soundscape .
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> Production Notes
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> Image = http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA17770_modest.jpg 
> Corner Filter =  http://files.lossofgenerality.com/yoshikawa_corner_filter.jpg 
> http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/CornerFilter.html 
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> MetaSynth
> 
> {
> MAP=Exponential
> BPM=30
> E-2 (to 0 if desired)
> x=1024, y=1024
> Attach several times if needed 
> Multisampler = SpaceTech Piano 1
> Stereo
> 
> }
> 
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