Space-themed music
[citation needed] Some more recent and widely different examples are The Planets by Gustav Holst,[contradictory] and the song "Space Oddity" by David Bowie.
NASA, JPL, and the US government's Centennial of Flight Commission have webpages showcasing and discussing music about outer space.
[2][3][4] One useful example of such a web-based list is by astronomer Andrew Fraknoi; see under External Links, below, "A Catalog of Music Inspired by Serious Astronomy."
Also in 1972 Tangerine Dream released their double album Zeit, featuring space-related track titles such as "Birth of Liquid Plejades" and "Nebulous Dawn", as well as cover art depicting a solar eclipse.
Montrose's first lead singer, Sammy Hagar, went on to record the title track of his album Marching to Mars, which was released in 1997.
The Japanese musician Isao Tomita has produced many albums with space-based themes, such as The Planets (1976), his version of Holst's suite; Kosmos (1978); Bermuda Triangle (1979); Dawn Chorus (Canon of the Three Stars) (1984); Space Walk – Impressions Of An Astronaut (compilation, 1984); Mind of the Universe – Live at Linz (1985); Back to the Earth – Live in New York (1988); and Nasca Fantasy (supporting Kodo, 1994).
The Vangelis album Albedo 0.39 (1976) is entirely devoted to space, while a segment of Heaven and Hell (1975) was used as the theme to the PBS television series Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
His work Mythodea: Music for NASA's Mars Odyssey Mission is reflective of his interest in space exploration.
The accompanying music video was filmed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the band performing in front of the Saturn V displayed outside the Vehicle Assembly Building.
His Electronica 1: The Time Machine album of 2015 contained the track "Zero Gravity", which was recorded with Tangerine Dream, and "Stardust", a collaboration with Armin Van Buuren.
In 2021, Archer stated that the song "isn’t a criticism of man’s arrogance in leaving Earth, but more about the lack of further space exploration that might have led to a better understanding of ecological issues.
[11] On The Orb's 1991 two-disc debut album, Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, disc one of features an ambient musical simulation of the Apollo 11 Moon journey, including excerpts of NASA recordings of the radio conversations between Mission Control and the astronauts in space.
The filk anthology albums Minus Ten and Counting (1983) and To Touch the Stars (2003) celebrate and promote the exploration of outer space.
Previously, the band's "Top of the World" music video, from 1991, featured footage from the first thirty years of NASA's human spaceflight programs.
The song "Exist" contains a spoken word section written and performed by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 2019, Julianne Regan and Tim Bricheno of All About Eve, released a video and song called Pale Blue Earth.
Another band to use space as musical inspiration is the Christian "Astro-Rock" group Brave Saint Saturn, whose three albums, So Far from Home, The Light of Things Hoped For, and Anti-Meridian, form a trilogy that chronicles the journey of the fictional spaceship, the USS Gloria, on a trip to survey the moons of Saturn.
The theremin is an electronic musical instrument associated with a very eerie sound, which has led to its use in movie soundtracks such as those in The Day the Earth Stood Still.
More recently, some planetariums have re-branded themselves as "dome theaters," with broader offerings including wide-screen or "wraparound" films, fulldome video, and laser shows that combine music with laser-drawn patterns.
Energy sources in the atmosphere, such as lightning, can produce sounds (sferics, tweeks, and whistlers) in the very low frequency (VLF) radio band.
