Animation

Animation for Kepler's Music of the Spheres

The performance, lasting about two minutes, comprises a quadraphonic sound composition by Paul Viotti, and an animation by Ralph Abraham. These will be played in coordination from a computer program, with four speakers and one video projector.

In this website we explain the animation.

Orientation
Score

And here are some (silent) animations (2 minutes long).

Flash MX (3KB, requires Flash Player 6)
Flash 5 (15KB, requires Flash Player 5)
QuickTime Movie (16KB, requires QuickTime Player 4)
Animated GIF (500KB, plays very slowly)

The colored disks represent the planets passing a narrow (30 degrees) window, seen from the sun. From the top down: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

Rev'd 08 jan 2003 by ralph abraham