carmen of the spheres

Very interesting take on the Harmony of the Spheres by Greg Fox here. A blurb from that page if you need any more enticement:

"This is (finally) the brand new early August 2006 work by Greg Fox, a first response to Edward O Wilson's "Consilience", Richard Dawkins' "Unweaving The Rainbow", Jared Diamond's "The Third Chimpanzee", Steven Pinker's "How The Mind Works" and most importantly Susan Blackmore's "The Meme Machine". All of these books deal (among other things!) with the relationship between art and science, between art and human nature, art and the world. "




The piece derives pitches from the orbital periods of the planets (using the idea that halving or doubling a cycle produces an octave down or up respectively). Of course that alone will only give one a fundamental frequency: I think he settled on sine waves for the realization.