Interstellar Dialog:
Sirius A
Solo
Project
TIME
2 Months
Mess is More Studio, 2022
RMIT University
Tutors
Karen ann Donnachie
TOOLS
SAO
IRAF
Jupyter Notebook
Blender
How does the twinkling light of stars shape our space and time, especially with another mental dimension: dreams, while we are standing on the earth? Based on the String Theory, with the agency of vibrating strings as an universal language, I asked:
- What if the magnitude of Sirius A in the night sky deliver information?
- What if we can decode those messages by speculating the potential patterns between the twinkling lights of Sirius A and our brain waves of unconscious dreams?
- What if other possible lives on Sirius A manipulate our dreams to communicate with us?
How can we respond to those messages?
sPECULATIVE QUESTION
A Poetic Relationship between Human's Dreams and Sirius A Magnitude
Overview
oVERVIEW
The Vinyl
Sonification of Theta waves of Qi (The Participant) dream on Oct.15th.2022
Narrations of dreams on Oct.15th.2022 from dreamers with different cultural background
Sonification of Sirius A magnitude on Oct.15th.2022
oVERVIEW
The Movie
INSPIRATION
INSPIRATION
Movie 'Interstellar'
Take a closer look at the word "Change".
You never "Changed", instead, you were 'Manipulated' by illusion.
Movie ‘Interstellar’ is one of the most inspirational movies to explore the existing undiscovered truth in the cosmo.
WHY DREAMS
WHY DREAMS
The Unconscious Moments
Moments we can’t control, have more potential to be speculated.
Do we dream or we are just in a dialog with others?
WHY SIRIUS A
WHY SIRIUS A
The Brightest Star in the Night Sky
Each second of the star light (300,000 km/sec) can be seen as an unique piece of evidence indicating the huge scale of time and space.
This enlarges the potential of magnitude to transport messages.
WHY MUSIC
WHY MUSIC
The Vibrating Strings in the Cosmos
Sound can travel cosmically based on the hypothetical String Theory
Music is an engaging media to empower lives for those who live on the earth and possibly others.
DATA EXTRACTION
DATA EXTRACTION
Sirius A Magnitude
After researching, I used data from an SAODS9, combining IRAF.
SAOImageDS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualisation application.
It provides for easy communication with external analysis tasks. IRAF is used at the Center for Astrophysics.
After extracting data from Sirius A, I tried to draw a graph to speculate the vibration with cleaned data. Before sonification with musical touch, the graph represented the ‘strings’ potentially.
dATA EXTRACTION
Dream Waves
I obtained Qi’s theta waves of her dreams with permission.
BCI Device: Neurosky TGAM
Data Extraction: Arduino + MindXP (an open source program)
DATA SONIFICATION
DATA EXTRACTION
Sirius A Magnitude
After researching, I used data from an SAODS9, combining IRAF.
SAOImageDS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualisation application.
It provides for easy communication with external analysis tasks. IRAF is used at the Center for Astrophysics.
