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TUNING INTO THE UNIVERSE

Astronomer Wanda Díaz-Merced explores the universe through sound. She uses sonification methods that she helped develop. Measurements of light and electromagnetic energies are converted into sounds of varying pitch, volume, timbre, and frequency, among other attributes.

Instead of seeing data in a

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