Hawai'i Space Exploration and Analogue Simulation (Hi-Seas)

Hi-Seas provides simulation of long-term Mars missions here on Earth. See Hi-Seas.org for further information. Applications have closed for 2013, but there may be research opportunities in the future.

Peer to Peer Session at World Forum on Music 5

Focus Group: International Space Station: New Contexts and Constructs for Creative Musicking
Facilitator: Sandra Kirkwood, Ethnomusicologist

This focus group provides an opportunity to view and discuss the latest You Tube videos of astronauts musicking on the International Space Station (ISS), and the first Earth to ISS musical performance. The focus group will allow people interested in aerospace musicology to raise issues and discuss the possible ramifications of the advances in extra-terrestrial music technology, performance and curatorship. This discussion is relevant to all disciplines in sciences/arts. See World Forum on Music 5 U-Stream and online particpation link.

Australian Aboriginal Astronomy

See You Tube by Prof Ray Norris, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Sydney, Australia, and a partner in CAASTRO, the Centre for All-sky Astrophysics.

Speculation about major space discovery announcement

If there is to be an announcement in the near future, as many are speculating on social media, perhaps it is that people have established musical communication with humans on Mars. What other news could shake the planet?

Aerospace themed TED Talks

The 6 TED talks discuss issues such as the importance of funding exploration research, and the future of space tourism -- all useful background to Aero-Space Music Adventures Research.

Gradius III Symphonic Poetry

Favourite aerospace music of the month: Overture, Gradius III Symphonic Poetry YouTube music video; Artist: Konami Kukeiha Club.

Mars Music

We have a legacy of visual images at "Mars as Art" (2006), and even a thesis explaining more about Exoart by Australian Trevor Rodwell (2011). "Exoart is a new form of artistic expression based on a close interaction with space science and cultural engagement. There are no current art theories that encompass all aspects of Exoart; however, Exoart is not without a historical base. It can be viewed as having close conceptual links with contemporary Land Art which itself is, in part, derived from ancient land markings and interventions" (Rodwell 2011, p. 47).

"Mars Music" seems to be lagging behind the visual arts and still imaginary for many people. It could be timely for enterprising composers and electroacoustic artists to explore the tangible visual images that are now available and to use them as a resource for making music.