Música de la tierra, música de las esferasde la cicloestratigrafía a las emociones

Résumé

The scientific, rational approach to the knowledge of the Earth may be complemented and enhanced with an emotional approach by means of arts. Cyclostratigraphy shows how some repeated sedimentary patterns can reveal climatic oscillations related to the Earth orbital cycles. Sedimentary cycles can be translated into music, turning rocks or facies into musical notes, and bed thickness into duration of sounds. Such Music of the Earth would therefore be connected with the Music of the Spheres postulated by Pythagoras in ancient Greece and, from a poetical perspective, could be itself considered as an expression of harmony of the Universe. Its deep message is the search for a friendly relationship with our planet, for a New Culture of the Earth that calls for an equilibrium between its multiple spheres: geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere and anthroposphere. Its practical development could extend to music accompanying scientific movies, background music in museums and geoparks, or as a motivating factor in Earth Sciences learning.