The ‘Sound’ of Saturn
I came across this interesting video in an unlikely place (well, Cracked.com 
, i was more looking for a giggle than for interesting sounds), of radio waves from Saturn converted into sound. Don’t ask me why there are shots of stacked frogs, venus fly traps and fruit spliced in, your guess is probably as good as mine.
From NASA: (nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia07966.html)
Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions, which have been monitored by the Cassini spacecraft. The radio waves are closely related to the auroras near the poles of the planet. These auroras are similar to Earth’s northern and southern lights. This is an audio file of radio emissions from Saturn.
If you look in the related videos, there’s also one of Jupiter, which ‘makes music’ not unlike a stretched out extract from Tim Hecker’s ‘Harmony in Ultraviolet’.
In terms of provenance, this reminded me of an excerpt of Alvin Lucier’s ‘Sferics’ that was on the double CD accompaniment to David Toop’s book ‘Haunted Weather’, i remember at the time being stunned by the synaptic tactility of those sounds, even though they are derived from a very insubstantial source: radio frequencies caused by lightning.
Alvin Lucier – Sferics (excerpt)
A quick google search of Lucier then led me to a charming coincidence: an album of ‘Sferics/Music for Solo peformer, having just been released on the label Lovely records, here’s a review of it on Dusted from just last week! Strange bit of simultaneity, that.
