Nature of the Night Sky Rx2
from Nature of the Night Sky Rx2 by Jeff Talman
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“…it’s so haunting, when you look at the galaxy, when you look at the sky, if you could think about how stars should sound. I think they should sound just like this.”
Jacki Lyden, Weekend Edition Saturday, National Public Radio
REMIXED — REMASTERED 2020
The guide Ralph Wenzl leads eleven people down a Bavarian mountain trail just after sundown. Looking back I see a row of flashlights as the determined faces hovering above them descend into the forest gloom.
We cross a small footbridge over a brook and ascend into a tree-ringed clearing where the slope of the mountain forms a natural forest amphitheater that is ringed with a multi-channel sound system high up in the trees.
We settle onto tree stumps, rocks, logs and blankets and then Ralph speaks briefly about what we will hear — the sound of stars. The forest grows quiet. Then the night sky begins to sing and our faces become illuminated by the stars.
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Stars create thousands of roaring resonant sounds that cannot penetrate the vacuum of space. But stellar seismology, the study of the oscillations of star masses, makes possible the scientific reproduction of their sound. Scaled to the range of human hearing, the star sounds infuse Talman’s composition with a cosmic reality and the vast timelessness of space.
The artist down-mixed the work to two channels in binaural stereo format for the 2011 release of the original CD and download. For this remix-remastered release of the project, the artist re-mixed the original multi-channel sound to a new binaural stereo version of the work, and then produced a new master, while paying close attention to the character of the older master, but using technologically advanced mastering techniques towards more clarity, fullness and depth of sound in the 2020 release.
This version offers the project sound in HD 48kHz, 24-bit audio, and other formats, to better represent the sound as first heard in the studio during composition of the work.
Jacki Lyden, Weekend Edition Saturday, National Public Radio
REMIXED — REMASTERED 2020
The guide Ralph Wenzl leads eleven people down a Bavarian mountain trail just after sundown. Looking back I see a row of flashlights as the determined faces hovering above them descend into the forest gloom.
We cross a small footbridge over a brook and ascend into a tree-ringed clearing where the slope of the mountain forms a natural forest amphitheater that is ringed with a multi-channel sound system high up in the trees.
We settle onto tree stumps, rocks, logs and blankets and then Ralph speaks briefly about what we will hear — the sound of stars. The forest grows quiet. Then the night sky begins to sing and our faces become illuminated by the stars.
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Stars create thousands of roaring resonant sounds that cannot penetrate the vacuum of space. But stellar seismology, the study of the oscillations of star masses, makes possible the scientific reproduction of their sound. Scaled to the range of human hearing, the star sounds infuse Talman’s composition with a cosmic reality and the vast timelessness of space.
The artist down-mixed the work to two channels in binaural stereo format for the 2011 release of the original CD and download. For this remix-remastered release of the project, the artist re-mixed the original multi-channel sound to a new binaural stereo version of the work, and then produced a new master, while paying close attention to the character of the older master, but using technologically advanced mastering techniques towards more clarity, fullness and depth of sound in the 2020 release.
This version offers the project sound in HD 48kHz, 24-bit audio, and other formats, to better represent the sound as first heard in the studio during composition of the work.
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from Nature of the Night Sky Rx2,
released December 4, 2020
Jeff Talman, New York — Artist, Composer-Producer
Dr. Daniel Huber, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii — project source sound: modeled, scaled sound of 15 stars, star sound data gathered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, the Canadian MOST space telescope, the French CoRoT satellite and numerous ground-based observatories worldwide.
Installation premiere: Berghof Gibacht, Altahutte, between Furth im Wald and Waldmünchen, Bavarian Forest, Germany: May 7 through September 18, 2011.
Jeff Talman, New York — Artist, Composer-Producer
Dr. Daniel Huber, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii — project source sound: modeled, scaled sound of 15 stars, star sound data gathered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, the Canadian MOST space telescope, the French CoRoT satellite and numerous ground-based observatories worldwide.
Installation premiere: Berghof Gibacht, Altahutte, between Furth im Wald and Waldmünchen, Bavarian Forest, Germany: May 7 through September 18, 2011.
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Jeff Talman New York, New York
Jeff Talman, pioneer of resonant composition, is known for the unique timbres, spatial gesture, harmony, expression and symphonic form in his work. His over 40 sound installations have led to an LA Times Selection for Best Classical Music of 2019. Before the installations, he first made electronic music as a teen in 1974, then studied composition and directed orchestras at Columbia University. ... more
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