Charm of Sound

Charm Of Sound association (Äänen Lumo) is the name of a Finnish association for Electronic Music and Sound Art, founded by Petri Kuljuntausta in 1995.[1]

Petri Kuljuntausta's "Charm of Sound" is a 1997 text-based environmental composition in three parts, which is composed for the environment of outer space. It invites the living creatures of Saturn's moon, Titan, to perform this work by using all the suitable material, solid and liquid, found on the ground of Titan.[2]

Background

In 1997, the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft (Titan-IVB/Centaur) was launched from Kennedy Space Center, United States, and reached its destination, Saturn's moon Titan, on 14 January 2005. Inside the Huygens probe, stored on the CD-ROM, was Kuljuntausta's "Charm of Sound".

Petri Kuljuntausta has stated: "If we suppose that there is somebody in outer space who could find the Huygens probe and understand how the CD-ROM works, signs of English language and meaning of artwork, then the composition is possible to realise with very basic elements, liquid and solid materials (objects), which might be available on Titan's ground".[3][4][5]

gollark: We have word2vec and stuff.
gollark: I see.
gollark: Notably, English words do not actually mean the same thing as the roots might imply, in cases where there even are obvious ones.
gollark: Just because your language theoretically has words composed of subwords doesn't mean you can ignore the various problems I mentioned (except possibly the grammar one). And "convert the words to semantic expressions" hides a lot of the complexity this would involve.
gollark: I'm pretty sure I've seen diagrams of pronounceable things of some kind, but they're more complex than just permutations of "high tone, low tone" and do not conveniently map to concepts.

References
  1. "Äänen Lumo". Charm of Sound. Archived from the original on 2016-01-11. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  2. "Various - Huygens (CD)". Discogs.com. 1997-10-15. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  3. "Une musique de Titan". MacMusic.org. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  4. "Music for Titan". MacMusic.org. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  5. "CEC-Conference: The International Electroacoustic Community Dis". Alcor.concordia.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-10-13.


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