Space scientists find that solar wind becomes music in the right hands

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Roberto Morales-Manzanares performing his 2004 composition Cenzontle written for solo flute and interactive video. Morales uses his instrumental gestures captured in real time with sensors to control a projected video in abstract and vibrant ways.
Roberto Morales-Manzanares performing his 2004 composition "Cenzontle," written for solo flute and interactive video. Morales uses his instrumental gestures, captured in real time with sensors, to control a projected video in abstract and vibrant ways.

The music of composer and musician Roberto Morales-Manzanares has been inspired by the sea, by wind and wave, by mathematical equations, and now - thanks to his collaboration with space scientists at the University of California, Berkeley - the breeze of electrons from the sun.


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