* Astronomy

Among the highlights of this year's Le Weekend is a singular exercise in sound where the music of the stars is played within the confines of Stirling Observatory.
Named Telescope, it's a recorded sound installation rather than a performance, and is the creation of duo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo (Glasgow's Neil Simpson and Leith's Mike Gallagher).

"We've used two sounds in the piece. The sounds of the observatory itself - there's a big handle inside which you turn to make it rotate - and the sound of the stars"  - Neil Simpson.

In order to create this stellar noise the pair have worked with Hungarian astrophysicist Zoltan Kollath, who records the optical oscillations of light from stars expanding and collapsing, and then converts this visual frequency into a sonic one.

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