PSR J1032-5804

Four pieces developed from radio-signal material connected to the pulsar PSR J1032−5804. The recordings accompany Broken Composers' sculpture, translating pulses, noise, and irregular bursts into an electronic composition.

The music and the sculpture grew from reworking astronomical radio-signal material. We translated the signals into sound and transformed them through wavetable and FM synthesis. Alternations of rhythm, random bursts, and noise became musical and visual structures.