Here are links to some of the press coverage and publications that Atom Music has gotten.
The Sound of Atoms, Physics Magazine, Physics 16, 6, January 9, 2023
Atom Tones: A Periodic Table of Audible Elements. Acoustical Society Meeting, Nashville, TN, Nov, 2022
German National Radio broadcast German National Radio, Feb. 5, 2020
A linguistic homage and musical elements C&E News, Jan. 2020
Atom Music press release Acoustical Society Meeting, San Diego, CA Dec. 2019.
Composing Atom Music Physics Today, Jan. 2019.
Below is a link to the first article on Atom Music that was published in the Proceeding of Meetings on Acoustics, Dec. 15, 2020, as well as a quick explanation of the project itself. Other articles and press can be found on the Atom Music tab.
Atom music: an investigation into the atomic world through sound synthesis
© 2020 Acoustical Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001328 Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 39, 035008 (2020)
Atom Tones: investigating waveforms and spectra of atomic elements in an audible periodic chart using techniques found in music production
Jill A. Linz, Christian Howat
Atom Music was introduced in 2019 as a way to create unique audible tones for each atomic element that are direct translations of that element’s spectral lines. Each atomic element produces a unique spectral line pattern that can be recognized as the fingerprint of that element. Sonification is the process of translating non-audible data into audible signals as a way to gain an understanding of the original data. In this paper, sonification is applied to atomic spectra, using technology primarily from music production.These were applied to atomic spectra using additive synthesis methods and analyzed using digital audio workstations. Interest in the audible tones has primarily been in element identification through each tone, as well as those interested in musical interpretation. We investigate what insights can be made by observing the digital waveforms and spectra of each element tone. We consider whether there are patterns within the different element waveforms; if there is any correlation between the elements producing similar beat patterns; and if there are any harmonic relations between electron states that are represented by the spectra itself. Results indicate that this method could be a useful tool in investigating atomic structure.
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