A solar burst is the sudden ejection of particles from the sun’s corona—responsible for the ghostly illuminations known as aurora borealis, or “Northern Lights.” In a strange collaboration with the Space Sciences Lab at UC Berkeley, composer Roberto Morales is transforming satellite recordings of solar bursts into music. This article ran in the July/August 2006 issue of California magazine.
Until a few years ago, the island of Ko Chang in the Gulf of Thailand was one of those secret travel gems that backpackers in the know only spoke about in whispers. The island’s growing popularity and easier access from Bangkok via a new flight route have since opened Ko Chang up to the rest of the world.
This travel feature was published in The Honolulu Advertiser on March 13, 2005. Read the article online.