http://music.metafilter.com/3318/chthonian-planets-4/ Comments on MeFi Music post chthonian planets 4 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:30:38 -0800 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:30:38 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://music.metafilter.com/3318/chthonian-planets-4 A curious alien has snatched one of our spacecraft from orbit and sent back a very strange signal... post:music.metafilter.com,2009:site.3318 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:05:08 -0800 wastelands 120bpm abletonlive ambient drone electronic experimental glitch korg ninthagenda noise space spacey strange trippy weird http://music.metafilter.com/3318/chthonian-planets-4#16827 The name of the track comes from a hypothetical type of planet. (None have been observed in nature... yet.) It's a gas giant with a metal core, where all the gas has been stripped away. comment:music.metafilter.com,2009:site.3318-16827 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:30:38 -0800 wastelands http://music.metafilter.com/3318/chthonian-planets-4#16832 As I listen, I can see the waveforms on a 1950s green trace oscilloscope.<br> <br> I start to enjoy the intermittent sharp spitty tones. comment:music.metafilter.com,2009:site.3318-16832 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:28:03 -0800 idiopath http://music.metafilter.com/3318/chthonian-planets-4#16836 Thanks for the comment, idiopath. :-) comment:music.metafilter.com,2009:site.3318-16836 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:43:19 -0800 wastelands