| January 31st, 2005 01:32 PM |
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| moy |
Rock 'n' Roll is Out of this World!
Posted on: Monday, 31 January 2005, 06:59 CST
ESA -- "Music has always been at the centre of cultures all
over the world and it will continue to play an important
part in thousands of years time. Music has a role in the
same way as technology and science in reflecting the age we
live in and generally exploring new areas beyond the
accepted boundaries and beyond Earth,” said Mick Jagger on
the Music2Titan project.
Four songs ‘Lalala’, ‘Bald James Deans’, ‘Hot Time’ and ‘No
Love’, composed by musicians Julien Civange and Louis Haéri,
hitched a 4000 million kilometer ride aboard ESA’s Huygens,
finally landing on Titan on January 14. Rock legend Mick
Jagger gave his support to this unique initiative.
“The music on board the spacecraft offers a very human touch
to the project and at the same time provides an important
educational aspect to the mission" said Jagger.
“As well as collecting all the valuable data from the space
mission itself we want to leave a trace of our own humanity
and to build awareness, especially among young people, about
this adventure outside the specific scientific arena” said
Huygens project scientist Jean-Pierre Lebreton.
The composers chosen by ESA responded to the request in
their own personal way. “Here we are in something highly
academic, very official, but our music is mainly rock! It is
just like a stowaway, it enables everybody to identify with
such a voyage,” said Civange.
Composed as a soundtrack, each piece of music corresponds to
a stage in the mission. “Lalala echoes the preparatory
stage: the music is simple and bouncing, the basic chords of
rock. The people in white overalls, like Playmobil figures,
that build a space probe in giant hangars made me think of
that I like best in rock: the pure madness that makes a
dream real, cost what it costs.”
The second piece, Bald James Deans, has a dramatic tension
that evokes the separation between the Cassini spacecraft
and the Huygens probe on Christmas Day. Hot Time, a more
experimental type of music, relates to the exploration of
the ground on Titan. The last piece No Love, is a calm
melancholic piece that raises questions related to space
exodus.
What happens now? The music, together with the Huygens
probe, will remain forever on the surface of Titan… at least
as far as we know…
[Edited by moy] |
| January 31st, 2005 01:50 PM |
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| moy |
http://www.music2titan.com/# |
| January 31st, 2005 03:14 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Well of course. Music is Spirit...and the main bridge between the physical and the spiritual. IMO. |
| January 31st, 2005 03:35 PM |
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| glencar |
Mick has had a longstanding interest in space exploration. |
| January 31st, 2005 03:39 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
quote:
glencar wrote:
Mick has had a longstanding interest in space exploration.
Inner space or outta space???? |
| January 31st, 2005 03:47 PM |
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| glencar |
What is your new avatar? |
| January 31st, 2005 04:27 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
quote:
glencar wrote:
What is your new avatar?
Says it all, doesn't it? Or at least a thousand words.
(That photo must be at least 30 years old. I wonder who the lady is. Anyone know?) |
| January 31st, 2005 04:27 PM |
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| glencar |
What album is it? |
| January 31st, 2005 10:35 PM |
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| Make It Funky |
Well maybe if you revealed who the guy was, we may, by deductive reasoning figure out who the tart is!? haha Looks like a bleached David Cassidy. But why would he be on this webpage? And why would he be holding on to some bird? haha
cheers.
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| January 31st, 2005 10:39 PM |
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| VoodooChileInWOnderl |
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| February 1st, 2005 05:32 AM |
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| luxury1 |
I want to be sick......... |
| February 1st, 2005 09:55 AM |
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| Bloozehound |
It looks like a cover to one of those "lonely lady" paperbacks at the grocery store check out.
It outta be a big hit around here. |
| February 1st, 2005 10:02 AM |
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| gimmekeef |
I think Mick has been more interested exploring pussy rather than space! |
| February 1st, 2005 10:36 AM |
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| Nasty Habits |
Yeah, I thought Mick was all about the digital internal space exploration program. |
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