05 November, 2014
20 June, 2014
Space Oddity - Cmr Chris Hadfield and some muppets
There are excerpts of the David Bowie 'Space Oddity' song performance by Chris Hadfield on YouTube, thanks to Glove and Boots and a couple of funny muppets. What is this about Mario and Fafa?
Will.i.am premieres song - from Mars
Faith Karimi, CNN reporter announced on 29 August, 2012 that "Reaching for the Stars" was broadcast from Mars as "first song to debut on another planet." Read more...
05 May, 2014
Why and how we need music on Mars
The reason that we need music on Mars is that so far, we have not heard any. People generally enjoy novel, innovative sensations because they evoke curiousity. There is potential for codifying our perceptions and experience into sonifications -- engineered on Earth or beyond.
In the future, we can build on early musicking performances on Mars -- stimulating further human discovery that is connected with the people, places, and musical occupations people undertake there. Musicking requires negotiation across cultures and precise timing -- related to the sensitivities that exist politically, culturally, spatially, legislatively.
The musical realm is not governed completely by science/technology, but relates to the aesthetic values and other concerns that are significant to those creating the work. Who is permitted to generate sounds in particular locations? For the musicking to be inclusive, the ideal would be open involvement of all who wish to participate. International participation is possible through Twitter and other forms of social networking, but synchronisation of efforts usually requires modulation and synthesis -- traditionally executed by a conductor or cultural leader. Is it possible to organise musicians and rehearse before arriving on Mars? What needs to be taken into account in the physics of playing there -- whether it is a performance in the material or virtual sphere? These issues are a fundamental considerations for researching our creative practice and participatory music making in relation to the new environment.
Let's extend the invitation to collaborate to those who are not normally involved in space discovery - musicians, ethnomusicologists, in collaboration with cultural advisers and respected leaders in aerospace engineering and design musicking that is meaningful to as many people as possible. Musicians and ethnomusicologists are likely to be at the cutting edge as ambassadors, diplomats and cultural negotiators as new social structures evolve -- if we permit them entry to this domain and international forums for discussion. A focus group was held on Aerospace Musicking at the World Forum on Music, in Brisbane Australia in 2013.
In the future, we can build on early musicking performances on Mars -- stimulating further human discovery that is connected with the people, places, and musical occupations people undertake there. Musicking requires negotiation across cultures and precise timing -- related to the sensitivities that exist politically, culturally, spatially, legislatively.
The musical realm is not governed completely by science/technology, but relates to the aesthetic values and other concerns that are significant to those creating the work. Who is permitted to generate sounds in particular locations? For the musicking to be inclusive, the ideal would be open involvement of all who wish to participate. International participation is possible through Twitter and other forms of social networking, but synchronisation of efforts usually requires modulation and synthesis -- traditionally executed by a conductor or cultural leader. Is it possible to organise musicians and rehearse before arriving on Mars? What needs to be taken into account in the physics of playing there -- whether it is a performance in the material or virtual sphere? These issues are a fundamental considerations for researching our creative practice and participatory music making in relation to the new environment.
Let's extend the invitation to collaborate to those who are not normally involved in space discovery - musicians, ethnomusicologists, in collaboration with cultural advisers and respected leaders in aerospace engineering and design musicking that is meaningful to as many people as possible. Musicians and ethnomusicologists are likely to be at the cutting edge as ambassadors, diplomats and cultural negotiators as new social structures evolve -- if we permit them entry to this domain and international forums for discussion. A focus group was held on Aerospace Musicking at the World Forum on Music, in Brisbane Australia in 2013.
23 March, 2014
Curating musicking in space
At the present, there is a small volume of music performed in space and broadcast for public listening so it is possible to explore music occupations and even archive some of the recordings. This is likely to show the general progress of musical performance and composition activities, and the trajectory for the multi-cultural diaspora on the International Space Station and other craft.
27 February, 2014
Apollo Mission and Country Music
Just located an article by James Dacey on the physicsworld blog (2009) that says that Apollo astronauts took country music into space (see http://blog.physicsworld.com/2009/07/23/moonrockin-the-science-museum/).
The blog states: "In 1980 Eno worked with his brother Roger and Canadian guitarist Daniel Lanois to create the ambient album Apollo. Inspired by hearing that some of the astronauts on the Apollo missions had taken recordings of country music with them into space, Eno set out to record a concept album of "zero-gravity country music."
I'd like to hear that. The full name of the artist is Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno.
The blog states: "In 1980 Eno worked with his brother Roger and Canadian guitarist Daniel Lanois to create the ambient album Apollo. Inspired by hearing that some of the astronauts on the Apollo missions had taken recordings of country music with them into space, Eno set out to record a concept album of "zero-gravity country music."
I'd like to hear that. The full name of the artist is Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno.
19 January, 2014
The Rosetta Disk -- NASA's Rosetta Spacecraft
"The Rosetta Disk, is a three-inch puck of microscopically etched nickel and titanium documenting 1,500 human languages. Inspired by the ancient Egyptian Rosetta stone, the Rosetta disk is intended to serve as a long-term cultural backup, a durable archive of ever-evolving (and rapidly disappearing) linguistic forms. A copy of the disk is currently on board NASA's Rosetta Spacecraft." Learn more about Rosetta - a spacecraft en route to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it will make the most detailed study of a comet ever attempted (see http://www.exploratorium.edu/tv/index.php).
This is a landmark in human language documentation. Can we go further and document human musicking in this way?
This is a landmark in human language documentation. Can we go further and document human musicking in this way?
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