Section 1

Autumn leaves rustle under the crunch of a hiking boot
wind billows furiously on a festive Winter evening
the Amazon rainforest hums and stirs
Waterfalls gush
Pedestrians converse loudly interrupted by traffic
the irritating click in a clock
the whistle in a pressure cooker
the ocean crashes into the seashore
the tap of a keyboard
the neighbourhood ice cream man’s jingle
the shrill of a drill on a construction site
the rev in the engine of a motorbike

Psycho acoustics disturb the human brain
Ungrounded, uneasy
microscopic vibrations of little consequence
Until pressure builds
Resonating and ripping apart
crumbling from the inside
Pacemakers skip heart beats
A jetfighter with zero concern
Casualties of shockwaves
The unseen explosion
Energy moves at unglimsable speed
Fragile ear drums shatter
Bridges fall
Buildings collapse
Destruction surrounds
Communities gasp
Mayhem unraveled
No mercy

Torture in Guantanamo
Heavy metal frequencies
Sound bombs used to disperse youth on Earth
Frequencies disjointed
A volume unregistered to man
Some sounds human ears can’t catch

Section 2

Beyond our five senses
Challenging human arrogance
Questioning the notion of ‘the unseen’
worlds beyond the wonders in a rainbow
ultraviolet infrared
animal eyes bare witness
humans unable to comprehend
devaluing what’s invisible to us all
vision always the focus
sound unappreciated by man
the superior sense overlooked
denying the full cinematic experience
ignoring journeys collated with sound
a universe to explore
infinite blessings for those with superhuman hearing

Ultra low frequencies a pitch human ears can’t fathom
Scientists speed playback to unmute the pitch for our ears
Sonifications, whistles and crunches
Ears see before our eyes
Space around our planet filled with plasma
far from empty
A cacophony
A string under tension
Magnetosphere a resonating chamber
Solar winds control the size
Magic frequencies
Constantly changing, retuning
The most complex of instruments
Composer and guitarist a mystery
Magnetic bubbles protection from space radiation
But sounds rain down upon us
Space weather a hundred years behind
Expanding to translate invisible weather in space

Men of faith believe in Jinn
Yet turn their head away when scientists explain
When they explore further than what meets the eye
In God’s universe
In this never ending discovery of its music
This intricately expressive universe

Section 3

If space plasma physicists met with aliens
Conversations they could have
Could span the spectra of language
conversing coyly with gestures not words

But communication between planets?
the size of a human difficult to explain
A metre unfathomable
Pondering on a shared metric
Universal laws
Conversing in the language of atoms
Physics and maths the metronome
Aliens and humans made of the same star stuff
Electrons in atoms
an atomic scale resonates
Electromagnetic radiator
Chords in a voice box
The chime in a pendulum
Tuned circuits in radio
The same interstellar station plays
Oscillations and waves recognised from a distance
Forming languages unspoken yet felt

Epilogue

The knowledge of a space scientist
Decoded in libraries full of physics books
How many who admire the hundred billion stars and euphoric moon
Celestial bodies, planets, comets and meteors
How many intrigued by musical compositions
How many pick up a maths or physics book
Further their knowledge of the universe’s vibrations
Will they remember waves in space
When they pluck on a guitar string
When the camels skin on their drum vibrates
Will they only admire musical composers
Will they make the correlation
Telescopic endurance