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Atomic spectrum of gold sonified   

As a chord: gold.flac (16 bit, stereo, 44k1, 2.5 MB).
61 spectral lines together (see logfile.gz).
Visualisations (of the sonification):

 

As pseudo-glissando: gold-gliss.aiff (16 bit, stereo, 44k1, 12.4 MB).
61 spectral lines as a rising scale.
Visualisation (of the sonification):



Gold combined:
Gold in combination with silver: gold-silver.aiff (16 bit, stereo, 44k1, 9.2 MB).
61 spectral lines of gold followed by 15 lines of silver (rising scales).
Visualisation (of the sonification):



Gold is furthermore the first element in the alchemistic metals series Au, Ag, Fe, Hg, Sn, Cu, Pb, which I've used in 2 compositions:
More about gold on wikipedia.

Sound and images were created with my open source software Spectroscopic Toolkit (and cropaiff).
Pieter Suurmond's nanotone sample library - december 2, 2011.