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ElectroMagnetic Music: a new tool for attracting people's interest in Geosciences, while sensitizing them to planet sustainability
Antonio Menghini
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Aarhus Geofisica s.r.l., Via M. Giuntini 13, 56023, Cascina, Italy
Stefano Pontani
Via Belluno 71, Viterbo, Italy
Vincenzo Sapia
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata
605, 00143, Rome, Italy
Tiziana Lanza
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata
605, 00143, Rome, Italy
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The EMusic project aims to use music as a tool to explain, to a wide audience, the role of geophysics and geology in our society. By means of the sonification of the electromagnetic (EM) response of the Earth, we are able to accompany people on an imaginary voyage into the subsurface so that they can travel into the depths and into the past. In this way, the audience can learn about the geological evolution of the site, which is used as a natural stage, from where the EM data were collected.
The EMusic project aims to use music as a tool to explain, to a wide audience, the role of...
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