If the Large Hadron Collider made music, this is what it would sound like: physicists

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If the Large Hadron Collider made music, this is what it would sound like: physicists
Stuart Dredge, The Observer
01 Oct 2014

Helping scientists to discover the Higgs boson was, it seems, just one of the Large Hadron Collider’s talents. It turns out that CERN’s particle accelerator can write a decent tune too.

Seven physicists from the facility have proved it by translating data collected by the Large Hadron Collider’s four experiments – ATLAS, ALICE, CMS and LHCb – into music using “data sonification” technology.

What’s more, they then gathered at the facility to play the results on real instruments, in a video commissioned to celebrate the 60th birthday of CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

The project was a collaboration with European research network GÉANT, whose arts and humanities manager Domenico Vicinanza handled the translation process from scientific data to musical notes.