Cosmic ray sonification: the COSMOPHONE

• DOI: 10.1007/s00146-011-0353-3
• Publication Date: 2011-08-30T06:24:50Z
• Authors: Richard Kronland-...; Thierry Voinier; David Calvet; Claude Vallée
• Keywords: Sonification; [INFO.INFO-TS] Computer Science [cs]/Signal and Image Processing; 02 engineering and technology; [INFO.INFO-SD] Computer Science [cs]/Sound [cs.SD]; [INFO.INFO-TS]Computer Science [cs]/Signal and Image Processing; [INFO.INFO-SD]Computer Science [cs]/Sound [cs.SD]; Sound immersion; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; [SPI.SIGNAL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing; Moving sounds; Cosmic rays; [SPI.SIGNAL] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing

The Cosmophone is an attempt to show the close connections existing between the infinitely small and the infinitely large in sensory terms by detecting and imaging the continuous flow of elementary particles (cosmic rays) originating from our entire galaxy.