Sonification of Solar System Orbits (Audio Universe: Tour of the Solar System)

This is an audio representation of the orbits of the eight major planets of the Solar System. Each planet is represented by a unique musical instrument and pitch. The sounds appear to perform "orbits" by moving the sounds in stereo panning and with a volume envelope. The orbital speeds are correct with the real data, relative to each.

The sonification was produced using the code 'STRAUSS' (Trayford & Harrison, 28th Proceedings of the International Community of Auditory Displays (ICAD2023), p249-256, 2023), which is available on github: https://github.com/james-trayford/strauss

It was produced for the show Audio Universe: Tour of the Solar System (https://www.audiouniverse.org/), with a description of how it was constructed in Harrison et al. 2022, Astronomy & Geophysics, Volume 63, Issue 2, Pages 2.38-2.40.

Credit: C. Harrison/J. Trayford/L. Harrison.
Voice of Rachel Lambert