Deep Purple in Outer Space
Posted by: SteveGa on 14 June 2007
Heavy metal on Titan
WOULD you like to know what Deep Purple sound like playing on Saturn's moon Titan?
No, the band hasn't actually been there, and nor has a recording of its work been dropped onto Titan to be broadcast back to Earth. However, physicist Andi Petculescu at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, and mechanical engineer Richard Lueptow of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have developed a model that predicts the acoustic properties of gas mixtures. They then played the opening bars of Deep Purple's classic track Smoke on the Water through filters that mimic the different atmospheric conditions on Earth, Mars, Venus and Titan.
The track sounds best on Titan, which has a nitrogen-methane atmosphere that is thicker than Earth's, making the music magnificently loud, with a rich, thumping bass.
You can hear it for yourself at http://tinyurl.com/yt4ae8, and find out more on New Scientist's space blog at http://tinyurl.com/2ywkgr.
Wouldn't fancy being in the audience!
Also go to the blog - at the bottom is a link to 100 Greatest Guitar Riffs
From New Scientist.
Steve
WOULD you like to know what Deep Purple sound like playing on Saturn's moon Titan?
No, the band hasn't actually been there, and nor has a recording of its work been dropped onto Titan to be broadcast back to Earth. However, physicist Andi Petculescu at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, and mechanical engineer Richard Lueptow of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have developed a model that predicts the acoustic properties of gas mixtures. They then played the opening bars of Deep Purple's classic track Smoke on the Water through filters that mimic the different atmospheric conditions on Earth, Mars, Venus and Titan.
The track sounds best on Titan, which has a nitrogen-methane atmosphere that is thicker than Earth's, making the music magnificently loud, with a rich, thumping bass.
You can hear it for yourself at http://tinyurl.com/yt4ae8, and find out more on New Scientist's space blog at http://tinyurl.com/2ywkgr.
Wouldn't fancy being in the audience!
Also go to the blog - at the bottom is a link to 100 Greatest Guitar Riffs
From New Scientist.
Steve
What no HMHB? 
quote:Originally posted by BigH47:
What no HMHB?
Not really a riff type band - more song based really
However, Trumpton Riots does have a great guitar intro followed by one of the best intro lines I've ever heard
Unemployment's rising in the Chigley part of town
Yes OK - there are lots of HMHB songs with great riffs - She's In Broadstairs, Irk The Purists, Bob Wilson, Anchor Man?, I Left My Heart In Papworth General, I Was A Teenage Armchair Honved Fan, Everything's AOR, Running Order Squabble Fest, Bad Review, Four Skinny Indie Kids and .... there's so many