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The Persistence of Time and Memory: Toward the Event Horizon

from The Persistence of Time and Memory by Jon Christopher Nelson

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Toward the Event Horizon conceptualizes what might transpire as sound waves approach the event horizon of a black hole, where time slows down and a sound’s very existence becomes stretched beyond recognition. In this work spectral elements of sounds are temporally and registrally manipulated, disintegrated, and reconstituted. The resulting soundscape attempts to create a sense of slow and massive sounds that are wrenched apart. While arguably there is no sound in the vacuum of space, NASA scientists have noted that the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy releases pressure waves that cause subsonic ripples in the cluster’s hot gas. While nearing the completion of this movement, NASA released an audio sonification of these black hole pressure waves. NASA’s sonification is included in the final moments of this composition.

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from The Persistence of Time and Memory, released August 28, 2023

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Jon Christopher Nelson Denton, Texas

Jon Christopher Nelson (b. 1960) is a Professor of Composition at the University of North Texas College of Music where he is an associate of CEMI (the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia).

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