Far Wide Radio translates telescope data into sound. Each programme works from a single James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) or Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) spectral cube, read directly by custom-made algorithms — no illustration, no mood music laid over a picture. Four instruments make the series. A batch engine sonifies a chosen field of the data — brightness, gradient, boundary, obstruction, lines, flow, holonomy, anisotropy — on a fixed bench: image row becomes pitch, column becomes stereo position, wavelength becomes time. Sometimes these are rendered clean of the continuum the telescope sends with the signal; sometimes it is kept, for its harmonic effect. A spectral voice inverts that bench: wavelength becomes pitch rather than time, flux becomes loudness, and redshift becomes a downward transposition — so the further back the light comes from, the lower it falls. A sheaves-based motif finder selects passages by the rarity and uniqueness of their structure. And a live deck, built for this work, traverses a cube under hand control, voiced through a chosen lens. A lens decides two things at once: which feature of the data drives pitch, and what tuning the result snaps to. The deck carries twenty-six, from ordinary twelve-tone scales to non-Western, non-octave and microtonal systems. Before Birth is voiced aggressively: a five-note pentatonic anchors the drone while a second voice runs deliberately unsnapped against it, so the tuning is never quite settled. It is the first series, and openly a test — long-form, unhurried, and in places completely silent. The silence is not an error. Where the data has nothing to report, nothing sounds.
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Signup to Generate a PitchFar Wide Radio translates telescope data into sound. Each programme works from a single James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) or Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) spectral cube, read directly by custom-made algorithms, no illustration, no mood music laid over a picture. Four instruments make the series.
Recent episodes include "Field Series 10, Field 5086, NIRSpec G235H" (29 July 2026, 115 minutes), "Field Series 9, Field 4528, NIRSpec G395H" (29 July 2026, 115 minutes), and "Field Series 8, Field 4426, NIRSpec G140M" (29 July 2026, 115 minutes).
Far Wide Radio publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 115 minutes across 27 episodes.
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Far Wide Radio is a general podcast with 27 episodes published.
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Episode #13
<p>The last of the Field Series: jw05086, first observation, NIRSpec G235H with F170LP — the same instrument configuration as Episode 7, a different programme and a different piece of sky.</p> <p>Fourteen minutes of the...
Episode #12
<p>jw04528 through NIRSpec’s G395H grating with F290LP — the longest wavelengths and highest resolution the instrument offers, the far end of its near-infrared reach.</p> <p>Fourteen minutes of the most distinctive...
Episode #11
<p>jw04426 again, third observation, this time G140M with F100LP — the shortest wavelengths NIRSpec’s medium-resolution gratings reach, on the same field Episode 10 reads further into the infrared.</p> <p>Three...
Episode #10
<p>jw04426, first observation, NIRSpec G235M with F170LP — the medium-resolution grating over the same wavelength range that the high-resolution G235H covers in Episodes 7 and 13. Coarser sampling, wider coverage per...
<p>The other half of the pair. Same JWST programme, same MIRI channel, second observation, one sub-band longer — jw02926-o002 where Episode 8 was o001. If the series has a controlled comparison in it, this is that...
<p>jw02926, first observation, through MIRI’s first spectrometer channel at its short sub-band — the shortest wavelengths the mid-infrared spectrometer covers, and its narrowest field of view.</p> <p>Fourteen minutes of...
<p>The odd one in the series, and worth knowing why.</p> <p>The cube is jw02457-o054 through NIRSpec’s G235H grating with F170LP — the same observation Episode 2 reads five times. Here the motif finder was pointed not...
<p>jw01621, exposure 00005, as it came off NIRSpec’s first detector. This one is named for hardware rather than for a grating: it is a detector-level product, the rawest-labelled cube in the series.</p> <p>The programme...
<p>The one mid-infrared cube in the first half of the Field Series: jw01328-o010, read by MIRI’s third spectrometer channel at its medium setting — much longer wavelengths than anything NIRSpec returns, and a much...
<p>One JWST observation, put through the motif instrument three ways.</p> <p>The cube is jw01191-o017, taken with NIRSpec’s prism — the widest and coarsest setting the instrument has, the whole near-infrared in one...
Episode #3
<p>The produced side of the reservoir — ten studio passes and machine improvisations, sequenced to arrive the way weather does.</p> <p>It opens on a desk render whose session name, A King of Spades Delta 1, records...
Episode #2
<p>One observation, read five times.</p> <p>The cube is jw02457-o054 — a NIRSpec pointing through the G235H grating and the F170LP filter. It was worked five separate times at the desk; the five renders are trimmed to...
Episode #1
<p>A descent through JWST spectral cubes, an hour and fifty-five minutes long.</p> <p>The piece opens and closes on the same figure: a fall through the depth of a cube. Wavelength is read as time, so the descent is not...
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