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DAYSTAR STREAM – Listening to the Sun

Long time no see! If we haven't spoken in a while: I'm learning a lot these days, and moving to Berlin has made my life a lot easier.

After eight years of self-directed, DIY research, I'm finally glad to start building the project I've always wanted to: a real-time sonification of the sun.

The work is in progress as I write this, new ideas keep popping up to bring it to life. If all goes well, the pipeline will go online at the end of the development period in 2027.

Prototypes:

Edit 2026-08-12: working on a "Solar Voice", a self-programmed deterministic voice: a rule-based finite state automaton. An agent that reads the state of the data and talks to me when it changes; I answer with code. Let's see :)

ProtoV0:

(
~textQuiet  = ["je dors", "je roupille", "je ronfle maintenant"];
~textActive = ["réveillé", "en pleine activité", "je pète le feu"];

Tdef(\solarVoice, {
    var previousState = nil;           

    loop {
        var energy = rrand(0.0, 2.0);
        var state = if(energy < 1.0) { \quiet } { \active };

        if(state != previousState) {     
            switch(state,
                \quiet,  { ~textQuiet.choose.postln },
                \active, { ~textActive.choose.postln }
            );
            previousState = state;     
        };

        1.wait
    }
}).play;
)

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