The soundscape changes in accordance with near real-time Atlantic Ocean conditions, as the data updates every 12 minutes. “If it’s raining, the piece looks and sounds different. If it’s stormy, the piece is different. It’s a living instrument that the ocean gets to play in real time,” Jewel said.
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After astronomers discovered exoplanets wildly different from Earth, exoplanets in science fiction became less Earth-like, too.
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The Small Self and the Vast Universe: Eclipses and the Science of Awe
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La música de las esferas del siglo XXI
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