BENNU 101955
[2025]8-channel speakers | 10-min composition | 4 screens
Using real NASA datasets, I map Bennu’s topography, altitude, texture, and surface velocity into generative sonic forms. Ejecta events, tiny rock particles released from the asteroid’s surface, become delicacies of granular sound. The orbital period, defined by the equation T² ∝ a³, is translated into cyclical time structures that shape the composition’s rhythm and duration.
The first movement exists as a multichannel installation written in SuperCollider for spatial speaker arrays, where audiences move through shifting acoustic fields that mirror Bennu’s physical properties. The piece continuously evolves, with data inputs informing pitch, density, and spatialisation, ensuring no performance is ever the same.
In reworking Bennu’s data into an immersive sonic environment, the project blurs the line between astrophysics and music, scientific record and artistic imagination. It proposes listening as a method of planetary study — a way of inhabiting celestial bodies through vibration, resonance, and spatial sound.
Composition Excerpt