March 8th, 2010
A French amateur radio operator was able to record and convert the signal of the Mar Express probe’s X-Band transmitter into an audio file. More information plus a sample of the recorded sound is available from here.
The equipment from an abandoned telecom uplink site used to listen in on the ESA’s Mars Express space probe wasn’t enough to allow download of the actual data.
“Listen here to the whistle of Mars Express as it hurtles towards Phobos and consider that this signal was generated on Mars Express by a transmitter only slightly more powerful than a light bulb.” – http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/7/1058
March 4th, 2010
Some intersting potential for a new midi controller could be possible after some reseach and development carried out by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology into creating mobile technology which reads the users lips. A development of this could be to create a midi expression interface?
Current applications highlighted are communication in silent environments or where the phone user may disrupt other users and the transmission of confidnetial or sensitive information – not to mention “having a quiet word” in public.
A post from Cellular News covering the story.
A link to Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
March 4th, 2010
A little off topic but can’t resist this post from http://www.sott.net/ – on the use of classical music to scare away youth culture
Apparently, “the most successful deterrent music”, in one area “included the Pastoral Symphony by Beethoven, Symphony No. 2 by Rachmaninov, and Piano Concerto No. 2 by Shostakovich.”
