Project of Lawrence Lee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Prof. Lee’s research is in elementary particle physics. Using particle colliders like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, he searches for new unknown particles to be produced in the high energy collisions of protons.
With a unique form of synthesis, audio waveforms are designed to show images from the world of CERN — painting dynamic pictures with sound. The sound waves of the music are shown on the glowing oscilloscopes, a common laboratory instrument, revealing that the sound waves encode complex animations from particle physics. The timbre and phase of the sounds contain the shapes of the Large Hadron Collider and its complex scientific instruments.
This work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, under Grant No. 2235028.