Kosmófono

A laboratory for science outreach and artistic creation on the science and music of gravitational waves.

Here you will find three free-access digital devices for learning and creating:

Sphere of interlaced lines, the Kosmófono symbol

Modules

  1. Educational Kosmófono: an interactive device where you can learn about general relativity, gravitational waves and cosmology.
  2. Kosmófono: an instrument for music and generative visuals that sonifies and depicts black hole collisions and the gravitational waves they emit.
  3. Medial Kosmófono: a TouchDesigner device for creating sonic black holes with your hands.

Kosmófono Concert

Kosmófono Concert at the MIM, Santiago: musicians on stage in front of a dome with images of nebulae

To find out about the activities we carry out, click here.