The Tones

The Tones refers to an ongoing audio broadcast featuring audio and video derived from the signals of three pulsars, recorded by a signal buoy in 1109. Roan & Rhys, the pair who have claimed to originate the broadcast, claim that they discovered a point of confluence where the overlapping signals from the constituent pulsars closely approximated the data that would make up an audio stream. As an experiment they piped the data onto the net, coupled with algorithmically generated images to provider visual filler.

Those who first hear of the Tones often assume it consists of deep bassy sounds, but the actual program consists of a range stretching widely across the auditory spectrum of multiple species. Listeners from disparate cultures are often able to pick out the telltale signs of familiar instruments, guitars, flutes, waterhorns, cialos, some segments even sounding astoundingly close to spoken language.