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So, I'm sitting inside this stone clock tower in the small town of Castellaro Lagoselo in Italy.

It's pretty old, like, 800 years old. 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. And through the

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

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

Well, it's a fair question. I was gathering tape to be played on this podcast,

but it was also my last day at the universe in all senses. It's an astronomy festival.

And I was pooped for three days. I ran around this tiny picturesque town capturing what was

likely the first multi-sensory astronomy festival ever. Oh yeah, does this sound familiar?

Yes, that's Matt Rousseau's trappest one sonification that we'd listen to in the first episode.

Yeah.

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

and then at night, they'd project visualizations of these compositions onto the face of the clock tower.

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