Touch The Stars is an electroacoustic piece of music realized between NOVARS, (composer Mark Pilkington) and The Astro Physics department at the University of Manchester (astrophysicist Tim O'Brien)
The structure of the piece is controlled by remote sensor data arriving directly from the a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire.
Data form the telescope is transmitted via the internet and translated into a specially constructed computer controlled music algorithm - the computer follows, calculates and manages a series of live sonic elements.
Part of sound material for the piece is derived from a one second recording of balloon exploding - a metaphor for the 'big bang' theory.
Mark Pilkington
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