On episode 350, NASA astronaut Don Pettit discusses his life and career ahead of his fourth flight to the International Space Station.

Houston We Have a Podcast: The Non-Stop Scientist

The large spiral galaxy called NGC 6872 has two elongated arms stretching to the upper right and lower left. Just to the upper left of NGC 6872 appears another smaller spiral galaxy. These two galaxies, each of which likely has a supermassive black hole at
the center, are being drawn toward one another. X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, represented sonically by a wind-like tone, show multimillion-degree gas that permeates the galaxies. Meanwhile Hubble Space Telescope data reveal the galaxy’s spiral arms and background stars as low drone sounds, soft plucks and cymbals. 
cymbals.

Chandra and Hubble NGC 6872 Sonification

Taken from Airmid

https://slowtonecollages.bandcamp.com

Airmid (named after the Irish goddess of healing), is my first ever piece composed as a sort of ambient sound bath. I went on tour last month and performed this piece live as a sound bath - participants laid out on mats on the floor and experienced the wash of sound and vibration for 90 minutes, as a meditation. Before leaving for tour, I recorded two versions of the piece in my studio, which I have worked/re-worked into this album. 

Airmid is built upon a binaural beat that I created in Max/MSP, using 285hz + 285.4hz and modulating the .4 slowly down to .1 to create variations in the beat. The first part (Restoring), uses layers of synthesizer, guitar, and 4 longform field recordings along with the binaural frequency to create an immersive, swelling journey. The second piece, (Resting), is nearer to what the live version sounded like. I brought in my singing bowl to signal the start and end of the sound meditation, and used an additional supposive healing frequency (741hz) that fades in and out throughout the track. The second track also features dulcimer and 3 more field recordings.

Releases September 12, 2024 

Written and produced by Nicholas Maloney 

STC 051 
Slow Tone Collages 2024

Blanket Swimming - Airmid (Restoring) (Slow Tone Collages)

On episode 353, the Artemis II crew’s chief training officer discusses her career at NASA, the complexity of astronaut training, and what it takes to prepare the quartet for their mission around the Moon.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Developing Artemis II Training

A tiny compilation to honor the post-influential life and musick works of Achim Szepanski, who sadly passed away in September 2024. Artwork based on photos made by Orban at curmbox artspace decades ago. Post production and typography Beate Zurwehme (ZKM)

https://music.apple.com/album/1770710072
https://beatport.com/release/ultralack-of-music-vol-2-a-non-tribute-to-achim-szepanski/4753193
https://deezer.com/album/649189931
https://open.spotify.com/album/5n9dClVbrSBtISzCgZWtW6
https://tidal.com/album/389905929
https://traxsource.com/title/2373876
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l4HPJFBkTRFCsZV0wZb8FBCwyMnxWmyYo

01 miss erfolg - feminismus oder schlaegerei 00:52 	
02 Nopamin - Aebeniflue 05:50 	
03 Zavorius Blob - Kernfusion Sonne 06:08 	
04 Robert Knote & Boson Spin - Eumarisen 04:18 	
05 Velorum Project - Bad Habits 04:44 	
06 Straylighter - Deep Methods 04:54 
07 klangkombinat - klangkombinatkonfigurationen 202401 03:00 	
08 Reitzklang - Nornenweg 04:20 	
09 Tek.Ka - Your Glitch 06:33 	
10 Van Czar - Kiss My Dirty Lips (WSM Minimal Mix) 05:59 	
11 Beate Zurwehme - 23 04:25 	
12 Deutsche Zickzack - Rettenbacher (Dub Mix 07:40 	
13 Christian Strobel - Computer FX 1 Streaming Tube 07:00
14 ptrk9000 - Moon Eater 06:41 	
15 Assuc & X6Cta - Staphylococcus 07:37 	
16 DJ M-Traxxx - I Am That I Am (Advanced Blessings Remix) 07:23 	
17 John Kawara - 2 Annabell vK 14:56 	
18 Sigrid Karzer - paedagogick ultraschwarz (NON-swiffed) 08:35 	
19 Submeditation - The Great Filter 05:48 	
20 Curt Kresspaul & John Kawara - Abschiedsbrief an Elfriede 12:17 	
21 Patrick Kuessner - 070523 psychedaily 10:15 	
22 Charlotte de Shitte & Amelie Hengst - Wunderkind X 06:20 	
23 Art Ensemble of Neurotica feat. Dirk Huelstrunk - Ich stehe im Licht (morgen)  17:49

Various - Ultralack of Music (Vol 1)
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https://beatport.com/release/ultralack-of-music/3966290
https://deezer.com/album/387211187
https://open.spotify.com/album/4DVf9F1lSvzO3rlWAAxGRj
https://tidal.com/album/266780168
https://traxsource.com/title/1932496
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n-WxL3V3oD1avDE1WyM8Us7am2fKLdzdA

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Ultralack of Music Vol 2

Telepolis

Computer FX 1 Streaming Tube

As NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft leaves Earth, it carries a message: we, too, are made of water. Europa—one of Jupiter’s moons—is a top candidate to support life, thanks to its ocean of liquid, salty water capped by a layer of ice. Lynnae Quick-Henderson, a planetary scientist at NASA, explains how Clipper will search Europa for the building blocks of life. The mission is also a message in a bottle, bringing a greeting from one ocean world to another. Hear how Ada Limón, the Poet Laureate of the United States, used NASA’s mission as inspiration for her poem “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa” and why she thinks everyone—even space nerds—should step back and appreciate our connections to the universe and each other.

Curious Universe: Europa Clipper's Voyage to Jupiter's Ocean Moon

In December of last year, I premiered a track from a new [to me] composer from Austin, recording under the peculiarly named Six Missing project. I later learned that the name is a tribute to the six people who were unaccounted for near the site of the Revolutionary War’s Battle of Brandywine and the almost supernatural experience that one day TJ Dumser had in a cabin around the same area (you can read about it more here). Dumser's music has always been full of emotion, this time capturing feelings triggered by an unexpected mental health crisis when one is nearly paralyzed with anxiety, burn-out and stress. One can only imagine what a panic attack could feel like, but for those who have been there, you know it is powerful and very real. The piece I am sharing with you today, titled "Storm", happens to capture this oncoming phenomenon of our internal weather, full of its inevitable and uncontrollable takeover of body and mind. But it is also encouraging in its sound and message, as the ominous multi-timbral and textural pads slowly break into a positive light - a transformation of fighting through the human condition, withstanding its ups and downs, and coming out being okay.

Gentle Breath

TRACK PREMIERE : Six Missing - Storm

Written and Produced by Agustín Mena
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Archives | 2024

Vessels

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Warmth - Vessels

Sometime in 2016, I came upon the California-based electronic musician, releasing his organic, evolving and highly textural synthesized compositions as r beny. I followed and watched many of his YouTube videos, where he showcased his modular skiff and various digital synthesizers (I particularly enjoyed watching the Novation Peak ambient showcase, which inspired me to purchase that synth). Throughout the years, I've been enchanted (as I'm sure some of you also have) with his particular aesthetic in creating warm, lush, and melancholic pads that stretch out their fingers and brush the worry away. When, in 2018, he got noticed by Dauw imprint, I reached out to premiere a track from his Saudade album. Since then, Austin Cairns' creations have continued to sell out - you can still buy digital copies of eistla (2018), echo's verse (2019), and natural fiction (2020) via his Bandcamp. By now, he has established a solid following, so it isn't easy to be useful with my words on HC. I can also say the same about the UK-based quiet details imprint, which has amassed a gathering of my all-time favourite ambient artists and relentlessly releases an amazing album every single month. This is almost a community now of all like-minded musicians sharing the label's aesthetic in creating pieces as an interpretation of the platform's name. I cannot keep up and cover every single album on there, so you might as well follow along on your own, and I promise that you won't be disappointed [for example, I failed to give my buddy James Murray proper coverage of his latest album, Weeds, thinking that, yeah, okay, you must already know that it's amazing]. Today, I'm dipping my toe back into the myriad of sonic seas and atmospheres with a track premiere from Cairns' upcoming album, discerned in the fugue of streams, because I think that it is very special.

discerned in the fugue of streams

fir-sweet and mossed

TRACK PREMIERE : r-beny - fir-sweet and mossed

⁰¹  Reeko - Urmah 6
⁰²  Brendon Moeller - Vacuum 
⁰³  Reeko - Black Owl On My Shoulder
⁰⁴  Paul Rêve - Till I Bloom
⁰⁵  Khords - Alpha Tunnel
⁰⁶  Absis - Black Dog
⁰⁷  Konduku - Hafif
⁰⁸  Brendon Moeller - Distant Frequencies
⁰⁹  Reeko - Rooted
¹⁰  Eusebeia - Fall Then Rise
¹¹  Yogg - To Whom It May Concern
¹²  Dyl - Interpretare 1
¹³  Third Space - Push (Part 2)

Vykhod Sily Podcast - Trostlos Wartend Guest Mix

Written and produced by Ludvig Cimbrelius
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Photography Alexander Kopatz
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ARCHIVESCD48 | 2020
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Hello, we’re NASA. You may have seen our astronauts, rocket launches, or Mars rovers — but have you heard our sounds? From interviews with astronauts and engineers to stories that take you on a tour of the galaxy, NASA’s audio offerings let you experience the thrill of space exploration without ever leaving Earth.

Curious Universe: Europa Clipper's Voyage to Jupiter's Ocean Moon

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