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Brilliant Noise by Semiconductor: Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt

Avaliable on DVD! with 12 alternate soundtracks semiconductorfilms.com/WorldsInFluxDVD.html

Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies.
Lots more info here:
semiconductorfilms.com/root/Brilliant_Noise/BNoise.htm
...this version suffers a bit from the internet compression. The original version is much better.
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  • Bill T. 2 months ago
    Wonderful, thanks! Art Brut at a cosmic scale!
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  • Corrado 1 month ago
    def amazin'
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  • mikedidonato 1 month ago
    This is awesome!
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  • 3d60 1 month ago
    I feel small
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  • germaine offermans 1 month ago
    woooooow this is cool.....it looks so pretty....bur also a bit scary...

    greets from germaine from holland
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  • Frank Hammerschmidt 1 month ago
    Jimi would have been inspired.
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  • John Sotiropoulos 28 days ago
    I remember that I saw it live on one dot zero in bios club athens and I felt the floor shaking...great time...
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  • Colin Wright 20 days ago
    this made for a pretty amazing installation at recombinant media labs.. got to watch it a couple of times alone in that crazy space.. great stuff!
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  • Ryan Gladstone 19 days ago
    very neat
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  • Kay in t Veen 19 days ago
    verry cool
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  • brian 19 days ago
    Its a reminder of the power of nature. Very good production - well cool. Thanks.
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  • Cacophony89 19 days ago
    Fooly & cooly...
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  • Nick Jones 18 days ago
    we are so small
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  • 0p0:::: 17 days ago
    Wow...
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  • Ash Laws 17 days ago
    Bloody love this.

    I'd be happy to see more scientific experimental vids like Brilliant Noise!
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  • eyeBOX 17 days ago
    Really cool. Brilliant.
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  • Oren 16 days ago
    Powerful stuff. Better than any Hollywood special effect.
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  • Arick watson 16 days ago
    Nice video!
    Would you all kindly add me :)
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  • Darren Chandler 15 days ago
    Most amazing time lapse I think I've seen.

    Solar flares at 1:25 and 1:54 are incredible!

    Sound is perfectly timed and gives a very dark (!) feel. For some reason this scares the crap out of me but I like it.
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  • Marty 11 days ago
    How do I get a copy of this on DVD?
    I would like to buy one right away.

    rkmarty@telus.net

    Thanks
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  • LVX 1313 11 days ago
    I Love You
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  • Jax QUESTER-SEMEON 10 days ago
    It sounds like the great organs from the outer space…Overwhelming!
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  • Jeferson Richetti 9 days ago
    wooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww
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  • Zip_Zero 8 days ago
    oh my.....blown away
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  • swiftorama 7 days ago
    woah this is incredible
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  • doxx 4 days ago
    so magnetic and powerful! all these amazing materials were from open archives??? can you suggest some of them to check for familiar subjects? i'm very interested in biology and chemistry subjects such as emergence of complex structures, any kind of flux, cellular automate, fluid interferences... do u have any idea about this kind of stuff?
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