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My attention was drawn to the hymn This Is My Father's World by remembering that it includes the words 'Music of the Spheres.' The concept is an ancient one, explored by Pythagoras and contradicted by Aristotle. The astronomer Kepler took it very seriously; he concluded that "the Solar System was composed of two basses (Saturn and Jupiter), a tenor (Mars), two altos (Venus and Earth), and a soprano (Mercury), which had sung in “perfect concord,” at the beginning of time, and could potentially arrange themselves to do so again."
The imaginations of contemporary musicians and scientists are stimulated by considering relationships among the vibrations of notes which produce music and the arrangement of planets in various solar systems.
This video lets us listen to music which would be produced by The Harmonic Series Played By Planets.
An Astronomer who is also a musician has produced a Ted Talk on this subject. Matt Russo introduces a way to hear with our ears what we thought was only visible to our eyes.
What does the universe sound like? He gives a musical tour of what the universe sounds like.
Since sound does not travel through a vacuum whatever sound our
earth makes would not be audible from space. However our planet
does emit electromagnetic waves which can be translated to audible
sound wave just like radio waves become sound waves from our
radios. This video lets us listen to waves Earth produces.
Electromagnetic waves as sound
Returning to our original hymn, This Is My Father's World,
we can listen to a recording which is arranged to emphasize that the
world is the vehicle through which spiritual music is being
played.
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