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…
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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
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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:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Grace Potter has a new song and video in praise of women in STEM: Initiate: Grace Potter Mission | NASA NASA Johnson Space Center and recording star Grace Potter have collaborated on a new space-themed music video released Monday, September 19. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The electronic music group STS9 has a new album out called The Universe Inside, which was prompted by two special gold records : Stream: STS9’s new album The Universe Inside, plus read a Q&A with the band – Consequence of Sound They were inspired by the twin […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Some nice Mars visualization imagery in this Jamie xx music video:
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A vinyl record spinning on a turntable reaches the stratosphere (but not space): Third Man Records Sends a Vinyl Record Into Space – The New York Times Watch the flight: From the video caption: Third Man Records has officially made history […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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A view of the Harry Gregson-Williams sound track for The Martian movie: Echoes of Vangelis – Why I love the music from ‘The Martian’ Here is a collection of Vangelis’s music including some from the Cosmos series soundtrack: ====
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The Juno probe is set to go into orbit around Jupiter on Monday (see earlier posting here): NASA’s Juno to Kick into Planned Autopilot for July 4 Jupiter Burn – NASA. NASA TV will webcast coverage of the event, briefings, etc: NASA Announces Coverage, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Check out this video of marvelous astronomical sights accompanied by guitarist Daniel Voth‘s Soundtrack of the Universe – From the entry at Candy Rat Records: The Soundtrack of the Universe’ is an 8-section, 30-minute long, progressive, acoustic-guitar suite from Daniel Voth’s upcoming full-album release ‘Trancendence’. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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