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AWB (Astronomers without Borders) features artists who have produced work on an astronomical theme. This week their artist is not a visual artist, but rather a musician. So I thought that a new thread would be good to highlight this. Joanne Lazzaro has made an album called Under the Stars and here is the track Evening Star Song. Joanne writes, This is the first song I created, on my very first Native American flute. On camping trips, I would take out this flute in the early evening, just before sunset, and play for the setting sun. According to the Karok of northern California, an evening star song is sung to recall a lover or loved one who has gone away.
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just bookmarked her fluting! Will purchase for bedtime sleep aiding! She plays beautifully and serenely... but I'm a sap for anything that anybody plays in an orchestra! lol
My parents paid for me to go to see Swan Lake in the Leeds Theatre (way back!) I was 13 and it was when I started to appreciate music - especially orchestrated woodwinds, timpani and percussion! Always loved the TRIANGLE at school....got to ding it ONCE! I had the same vibe for being Angel Gabriel in the school Christmas play...but my cousin Enid who was older than me and had blonder hair...always got the job! Oh well...we still friends. lol
Funny how one song can bring back so many memories. X thanks
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Austrian Apparel is a duo from Vienna who play electronic music. Here is their tribute to ESA's Rosetta mission. Here is the Rosetta image of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko taken nearly a year ago on September 24, 2014. Strange to think of this tiny world whizzing around the Sun, sometimes closer to the Sun than Mars, sometimes as far out as Jupiter.
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It's not often that a protest song is protesting an astronomical classification, but Jonathan Coulton's I'm Your Moon is a love song from Charon to Pluto. Strictly speaking, "I'm your moon, you're my moon" doesn't make sense because moons don't orbit each other. However many astronomers have argued that Pluto and Charon should be considered a double dwarf planet. (Since this is a light-hearted musical thread, I'll spare you the explanation of why - it's about barycenters and such.) Anyhow it's a cute song.
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Oh I love the music! And Allyson, love your story - I've never imagined Archangel Gabriel with blond hair - I think you would have been perfect
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Here is a video of Joanne Lazzaro during a live recording session on Mt Wilson last year. This was under the dome of the 100-inch telescope. She says, The tune "Condor" is completely improvised, and uses only the natural acoustics of the 100-in telescope dome. The track title refers to Native American astronomy lore that describes the planet Mars as the eye of the Condor. I'm playing a traditional red cedar five-holed Native American flute made by Michael Graham Allen (Coyote Oldman).
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Mona! This music were just the break I needed today. I've been rushing from task to task, not one thing finished, many things started. Whew! I needed the ear candy and a chance to slow down.
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Estrack is the European Space Tracking network – it's the ESA equivalent of NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). These networks and a number of others maintain communications with space probes. Estrack now has an official musical theme. Gautier Archer's “11,2 km/s†was the winner of the 2015 Tracking Station Music Contest which celebrated Estrack's 40th birthday. Gautier wrote: "This track is a triptych that shows space is vast, but is full of interesting things, such as humankind, stars, comets, planets... It describes great achievements, in the past, and in the future." More about the competition and a video of the winning music here .
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On November 26, 1988 the Soyuz TM-7 took two Soviet cosmonauts and a French researcher to the space station Mir. The cosmonauts took the cassette of Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder album, which became the first rock album to be played in space.
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