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Space music videos – Dec.21.2018

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 Apple Music

** Dragonland (A SpaceX Tribute) :

“Dragonland” is a music montage honoring SpaceX, specifically the robotic Dragon cargo ship and the recently announced Dragon V2 that will fly crew to the International Space Station and, later in the decade, the Bigelow Aerospace expandable habitats.

The music “Dragonland” is from the new album “Sun” by Thomas Bergersen. You can download the album via his web site at www.thomasbergersen.com.

** Enchantress — A SpaceX Tribute Video:

“Enchantress” is a musical montage video tribute to the reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster.

Most video footage is from the SpaceX YouTube channel. One small clip is from a National Geographic Channel film about the first Falcon 9 landing on December 22, 2015.

The music “Enchantress” is from the album “Vanquish” by Two Steps From Hell. You can order the album and others through their web site at www.twostepsfromhell.com.

** SpaceX is AMAZING ! – Tribute (HD):

Compilation of some of the best moments in SpaceX history.
With some interviews of Elon Musk
Music : Daughter – Medicine (Sound Remedy Remix)

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Space music video: NASA astronaut Drew Feustel on the ISS

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 Space Station in March 2018 and is currently serving as Expedition 56 Commander. Drew thanks all who helped bring this to life, including his friend, Gord Sinclair, for giving him permission to use the song, and the crew of Expeditions 55 and 56 for their support and participation in NASA’s human space exploration mission.

Here is a Chris Hadfield’s famous rendition of Space Oddity on the ISS:

Hadfield also performed the song I.S.S. simultaneously with Barenaked Ladies and a choir back on earth:

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Space Music: The Planets at 100 + A new suite of Planets for 2018

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, little was known about the physical nature of the worlds represented musically by Gustav Holst, and he didn’t care. His focus was on the planets as metaphors for different facets of the psyche; War, Peace, Jollity, Old Age, Messenger, Magician and Mystic. Indeed, Holst wrote parts of the work as stand-alone pieces and co-opted them later.

Today we have visited all the planets and our discoveries have replaced their ancient astrological characters. At first sight, this new knowledge might appear to jar with Holst’s work, but this would be a superficial conclusion to draw. The planets have histories far richer than Holst could have imagined and reality delivers more powerful metaphors than myth. Set against what we now know, Holst’s work catalyses new ideas and generates powerful intellectual challenges which enrich and inform important debates in progress today, as art with depth can and perhaps must do.

Here is one orchestral rendition of the Suite:

A review of each planet: ‘The Planets’ at 100: A listener’s guide to Holst’s solar system | MPR News

A music project has created a new 21st Century version of the Planets suite: The Planets 2018 – Ligeti Quartet – SOUND UK

The idea to reimagine The Planets using modern science came from the young British composer Samuel Bordoli who, along with producers Sound UK, paired up each musician with a planet and a mentor and asked them each to write a five-minute piece for string quartet. Titled The Planets 2018, the results are to be performed by the Ligeti Quartet in planetariums across the country from Saturday.

The timing is neat. Not only does the first concert mark 100 years to the day that Holst first debuted his Planets suite, but Greenwich – where the planetarium tour begins – is the location where astronomers conclusively disproved Lowell’s claim of a Martian army building waterways 33.5 million miles away.

 

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