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The impressive seismic activity beneath the Yellowstone national park in the United States, is being converted into live music.

The fact that the park averages eight earthquakes a day almost guarantees source material for a special concert.

Activity in the earth's crust is being simultaneously translated into notes - being played, live on stage, by a flautist, Dr Alyssa Schwartz.

It's a process called 'data sonification' and it's the first attempt of its kind.

Dr Domenico Vicinanza, of Anglia Ruskin University in the UK, is the composer and scientist behind it.

He spoke to Newshour's Paul Henley before the concert.

(photo: The Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone national park; credit - ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ)