Jet engines get more recognition for their ability to get airplanes off the ground than for the sounds they make, but a new recording released Tuesday by General Electric wants to change that. "Drop Science" repurposes the sounds of jet engines to create music that could appeal to more than just lovers of aviation.
The song was a collaboration between American music producer Matthew Dear and GE acoustic engineer Andrew Gorton.
“There’s music in everything,"
Dear combined more than 1,000 samples of sounds recorded inside GE research centers, Digiday reported. The sounds are usually used by engineers, who monitor them to diagnose issues with the engines before they are noticeable.
"An acoustic signature from a piece of equipment is like a fingerprint from a human. No two sounds are the same,” GE's Fabian Dawson said.
"Drop Science" is being released on SoundCloud and YouTube, as well as BitTorrent, Djay 2, Drip.fm and Spotify, according to Digiday.
The track's purpose is more than artistic: Creating music from engine and equipment sounds that's good enough to be shared among electronic music fans and aviation geeks serves as content marketing for GE. The company hopes that artists will find the sounds interesting enough to use in their own remixes.
A documentary about the creation of the track, and the origin of the recordings, was also released Tuesday.