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Science Talk

Song of the Stars, Part 3: The Universe in all Senses

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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An astronomy festival in Italy opted to make all of its events and workshops multisensory. The organizers wanted to see whether sound, touch and smell can, like sight, transmit the wonders of the cosmos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

0:05.8

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years.

0:11.0

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0:20.1

To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.

0:23.1

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0:24.1

That's Y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O.jp.

0:28.6

When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt.

0:34.3

So I'm sitting inside this stone clock tower in the small town of Castellar Lagucelo in Italy.

0:41.3

It's pretty old, like 800 years old.

0:44.3

I had found a nook in this tower where I could sit and record this ethereal music coming from the speaker in front of me.

0:53.3

And through the slit of a window behind me, I could watch Italians mill about below.

1:00.8

So, Timmy, why are you being a recluse in this tower instead of talking with people in the ground?

1:06.2

Well, it's a fair question.

1:09.8

I was gathering tape to be played on this podcast, but it was also my last day at the universe in all senses.

1:19.0

It's an astronomy festival, and I was pooped.

1:23.3

For three days, I ran around this tiny, picturesque town capturing what was likely the first

1:29.6

multisensory astronomy festival ever.

1:33.5

Oh, yeah, does this sound familiar?

1:36.2

Yes, that's Matt Brousseau's Trappist One Sonification that we listened to in the first episode.

1:41.4

Yeah.

1:47.0

The festival organizers rigged up the clock tower to play a bunch of sonifications on a loop,

1:52.0

and then at night they'd project visualizations of these compositions onto the face of the

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