For your Christmas Day enjoyment, here are some songs by Menna Mulugeta, who happens to be the daughter of a cousin of my wife: See also https://www.facebook.com/MennaMulugetaMusic…. and MennaMulugeta – YouTube.
Archive for Space Music
A selection of space inspired music videos: ** “Astronaut Beach House” – Everyday Astronaut: Music from Maximum Aerodynamic Pressure by Everyday Astronaut on Apple Music ** “Moon Dance” – Everyday Astronaut: Music from Maximum Aerodynamic Pressure by Everyday Astronaut on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Earth images from the ISS combined with the music of Paul Simon’s “The Sounds of Silence” as performed by Disturbed: The Sound (& Visions) of Silence ==== The High Frontier: An Easier Way
Astronaut Drew Feustel gives an excellent performance in this music video recorded on the International Space Station with gorgeous views of the earth passing below: NASA astronaut Drew Feustel recorded this music video from space. Feustel launched to the International […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On the 100th anniversary of the debut of Gustav Holst’s Planets Suite, Brian Cox compares the actual planets to their personas in the music: Brian Cox on Holst’s Planets then and now – The Guardian When The Planets was completed in 1916, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
** Space Song – Beach House ** DUST x ZHU “Magenta Sky” Sci-fi Music Interlude ** Jovian Moon Run – Everyday Astronaut ** Slow Orbit – Everyday Astronaut ** Elegy to the Void – Beach House (Thank Your Luck Stars album) ==== […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the latest Space to Ground report from NASA on this week’s activities related to the International Space Station: Here is a music video from NASA astronaut Scott Tingle’s son who wrote, produced, and sent to him in space the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many of the compositions of Nigel Stanford appear to be space inspired as seen in this video, which really stands as a nicely made sci-fi short film: One Hundred Hunters comes from the Automatica album as does Gravity Waves : Aurora from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out the big collection of vidoes created by Seán Doran showing beautiful space imagery. Here is a sampling: ** Imagery of Jupiter taken during the Juno probe‘s ninth orbit is viewed with the music of the ‘Orphic Hymn’ by Jóhann Jóhannsson. Performed by the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some space-y music from not the usual people and places: ** Angelina Jordan – Fly Me To The Moon – The View 2014 (She also has an official video of the song but I find the lip synching distracting.) ** SPACE […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Indian musician Ram Sampath has composed a song dedicated to the Team Indus lunar lander project. The song is performed by Sona Mohapatra and the band Sanam. Read the background story to the TeamIndus anthem. Team Indus is a finalist in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Styx in June released The Mission, their 15th studio album since the progressive rock band started out in the early 1970s. The concept album depicts the first human mission to Mars. [Tommy Shaw]’s cosmos-themed language reflects the story line that he […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From the latest Explore Mars newsletter comes news of the premier of a rock opera about settling Mars: Explore Mars, Inc. excited about our sponsorship of the innovative rock opera, One Way Trip to Mars that will have its world theatrical premiere from August […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On August 21st, the Kronos Quartet will create music out of the solar eclipse in an event sponsored by San Francisco’s Exploratorium and organized by composer Wayne Grim : Eclipse Sonification with Kronos Quartet Offers a Chance to Listen to “Music of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jordin Kare – laser propulsion expert, physicist, rocket designer & filksinger – dies at age 60
Physicist, rocket designer, laser propulsion proponent, co-founder of LaserMotive, and music composer Jordin Kare passed away last week: Remembering Jordin Kare (1956-2017) – Centauri-Dreams) We’ve just lost a fine interstellar thinker. Jordin Kare has died of aortic valve failure at age 60. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A world premier performance of the Red Planet anthem “Rise to Mars!” From the caption: Rise to Mars! Men and women Dare to dream! Dare to strive! Build a home for our children Make this desert come alive! There are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Taimane Gardner, a virtuoso ukelele player and a composer, is creating a series of works inspired by the orbs of the solar system. Here is a sampling of her performances on video:
Isao Tomita was a pioneer in electronic music who first began experimenting with synthesizers in the late 1960s. Space was a favorite theme of his compositions and recordings and before his death in 2016 he was working on a “space-ballet […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On December 21, 2015, a SpaceX Falcon 9 delivered 11 ORBCOMM satellites to low-Earth orbit and the first stage booster came back and made a powered landing on a pad at Cape Canaveral. That was the first time an orbital […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The arrival of the new Vangelis album Rosetta, inspired by the ESA mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko that just ended, led to this brief history of space inspired electronic music: Albedo 0.06: Vangelis returns – The Space Review Some other space inspired electronic music: Find more electronic […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…