Stellar Command: a planetarium software based cosmic performance interface

Angelo Fraietta

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

This paper presents the use of Stellarium planetarium software coupled with the VizieR database of astronomical catalogues as an interface mechanism for creating astronomy based multimedia performances, and as a music composition interface. The celestial display from Stellarium is used to query VizieR, which then obtains scienti c astronomical data from the stars displayed--including colour, celestial position, magnitude and distance--and sends it as input data for music composition or performance. Stellarium and VizieR are controlled through Stellar Command, a software library that couples the two systems and can be used as both a standalone command line utility using Open Sound Control, and as a software library.

Citation:

Angelo Fraietta. 2019. Stellar Command: a planetarium software based cosmic performance interface. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3673005

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Fraiettab2019,
 abstract = {This paper presents the use of Stellarium planetarium software coupled with the VizieR database of astronomical catalogues as an interface mechanism for creating astronomy based multimedia performances, and as a music composition interface. The celestial display from Stellarium is used to query VizieR, which then obtains scienti
c astronomical data from the stars displayed--including colour, celestial position, magnitude and distance--and sends it as input data for music composition or performance. Stellarium and VizieR are controlled through Stellar Command, a software library that couples the two systems and can be used as both a standalone command line utility using Open Sound Control, and as a software library.},
 address = {Porto Alegre, Brazil},
 author = {Angelo Fraietta},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3673005},
 editor = {Marcelo Queiroz and Anna Xambó Sedó},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 pages = {387--392},
 publisher = {UFRGS},
 title = {Stellar Command: a planetarium software based cosmic performance interface},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2019/nime2019_paper075.pdf},
 year = {2019}
}