Charm Of Sound association (Äänen Lumo) is the name of a Finnish association for Electronic Music and Sound Art, founded by

Petri Kuljuntausta Petri Kuljuntausta is a Finnish composer, musician, sound artist and author of three books on electronic music and sound art. Since the 1990s he has belonged to a new generation of composers in Finland interested in experimental and electroni ...

in 1995. Petri Kuljuntausta's "Charm of Sound" is a 1997 text-based environmental composition in three parts, which is composed for the environment of outer space. It invites the living creatures of

Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine and a half times that of Earth. It has only one-eighth the average density of Earth; ...

's moon,

Titan Titan most often refers to: * Titan (moon), the largest moon of Saturn * Titans, a race of deities in Greek mythology Titan or Titans may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional entities Fictional locations * Titan in fiction, fiction ...

, to perform this work by using all the suitable material, solid and liquid, found on the ground of Titan.

Background

In 1997, the

Cassini–Huygens ''Cassini–Huygens'' ( ), commonly called ''Cassini'', was a space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its ri ...

spacecraft ( Titan-IVB/Centaur) was launched from

Kennedy Space Center The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten field centers. Since December 196 ...

, United States, and reached its destination,

's moon

, on 14 January 2005. Inside the

Huygens probe ''Huygens'' ( ) was an atmospheric entry robotic space probe that landed successfully on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005. Built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), launched by NASA, it was part of the ''Cassini–Huygens'' mission an ...

, stored on the CD-ROM, was Kuljuntausta's "Charm of Sound".

has stated: "If we suppose that there is somebody in outer space who could find the ''Huygens'' probe and understand how the CD-ROM works, signs of English language and meaning of artwork, then the composition is possible to realise with very basic elements, liquid and solid materials (objects), which might be available on Titan's ground".

References

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