So I was checking out this video about how scientists have converted the light of stars into sound to help give insight into the star's size and stage in evolution. While watching this, I couldn't help but notice that a dwarf star sounds like a sample in The Catalyst. Give it a look/listen. What do you guys think? [Youtube]IzeJq3CbiZM[/youtube]
I hear it similar at 0:39, when the songs starts. Fuck, I lost it now. I swear I could hear it, now I'm lost in the static lol.
They intro keyboard sound itself is a patch straight off an Access Virus TI-2 synthesizer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HMKsvyLOZk The "swirling" sound underneath it during the first 20-ish seconds of the intro sounds a lot like that dwarf star sound, but it's also a type of sound that's easily created by playing around with the waveform/EQ filter knobs on a synthesizer while playing a long note.
It definitely sounds similar, but it's NOT the same as the recordings made by Kepler, which were presented in the video. These recordings were only just recently released after Kepler was considered for decommissioning by NASA a few days ago. The spacecraft can still continue it's mission, but it's unlikely that they'll continue the mission with half the spacecraft non-operational. (R.I.P. Kepler) However, it most likely is a sound sample from another spacecraft's recordings, although I wouldn't know of a spacecraft before Kepler that made such recordings of star systems as it did.