This track is included in my new collaborative album HIGHFLUX: ariad.bandcamp.com/album/highflux I collaborated with my amazing friend @primaloop. I hope you will like the result as we do. The full album contains a bonus track.

primaloop: original drums and effects
ariad: keyboard, clarinet, balafon glockenspiel

More infos:  https://ariad-music.com/music/highflux

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Foot Out

2018.

Vocal by Arema Arega from "Miro Y Te Veo".

Nightfall

A dead body on Earth would begin to decompose as the bacteria in the air and within the body began the long process of breaking down. However, in space, there is no oxidation, so decomposition cannot occur before the body either freezes (if you are not near a source of heat) or mummifies (all the moisture will be sucked out of your body). If your body was mummified, all biological processes would stop rather quickly, so there would be no further breakdown of your body. Both processes happen rapidly, but that frozen/mummified corpse could potentially sail through the cosmos for millions of years before encountering another object or force that acted on it.

Desiccated Corpse Floating Through Space

enjoy this patch 

(headphones recommended)

digital forest

This is another song from my "Island Suite". Created with Ableton Live and some virtual instruments like Zebra2, Dune 3, Electra, DS Thorn, Nemesis and other VST plugins. Sit back please, relax and enjoy the atmosphere ;-)
The image was composed from my own photos in GIMP.

Fantasy Island

Fanstasy Island

Avi Loeb is no stranger to controversy. The prolific Harvard University astrophysicist has produced pioneering and provocative research on black holes, gamma-ray bursts, the early universe and other standard topics of his field. But for more than a decade he has also courted a more contentious subject—namely, space aliens, including how to find them. Until relatively recently, Loeb’s most high-profile work in that regard was his involvement with Breakthrough Starshot, a project funded by Silicon Valley billionaire Yuri Milner to send laser-boosted, gossamer-thin mirrorlike spacecraft called “light sails” on high-speed voyages to nearby stars. All that began to change in late 2017, however, when astronomers around the world scrambled to study an enigmatic interstellar visitor—the first ever seen—that briefly came within range of their telescopes.

The object’s discoverers dubbed it ‘Oumuamua—a Hawaiian term that roughly translates to “scout.” The unavoidably cursory examinations of this celestial passerby showed it had several properties that defied easy natural explanation. ‘Oumuamua’s apparent shape—which was like a 100-meter-long cigar or pancake—did not closely resemble any known asteroid or comet. Neither did its brightness, which revealed ‘Oumuamua was at least 10 times more reflective than one of our solar system’s typical space rocks—shiny enough to suggest the gleam of burnished metal. Most strangely, as it zoomed off after swooping by the sun, the object sped up faster than could be explained by our star’s waning gravitational grip alone. Run-of-the-mill comets can exhibit similar accelerations because of the rocketlike effect of evaporating gases jetting from their sunlight-warmed icy surfaces. But no signs of such jets were seen around ‘Oumuamua.

To Loeb, the most plausible explanation was as obvious as it was sensational: taken together with its possibly pancakelike shape and high reflectivity, ‘Oumuamua’s anomalous acceleration made perfect sense if the object was in fact a light sail—perhaps a derelict from some long-expired galactic culture. Primed by years spent pondering how we might someday find evidence of cosmic civilizations in the sky’s depths, he became increasingly convinced that, with ‘Oumuamua, the evidence had instead found us. In late 2018 Loeb and his co-author Shmuel Bialy, a Harvard postdoctoral fellow, published a paper in the Astrophysical Journal Letters arguing that ‘Oumuamua had been nothing less than humanity’s first contact with an artifact of extraterrestrial intelligence.

The paper has been a smash hit with journalists but has fallen flat with most of Loeb’s astrobiology-focused peers, who insist that, while strange, ‘Oumuamua’s properties still place it well within the realm of natural phenomena. To claim otherwise, Loeb’s critics say, is cavalier at best and destructive at worst for the long struggle to remove the stigma of credulous UFO and alien-abduction reports from what should unquestionably be a legitimate field of scientific inquiry.

The observations suggest this unusual object had been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system.

“For decades we’ve theorized that such interstellar objects are out there, and now―for the first time―we have direct evidence they exist,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, in November 2017.

Immediately after its discovery, telescopes around the world, including ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, were called into action to measure the object’s orbit, brightness and color. Urgency for viewing from ground-based telescopes was vital to get the best data.

Oumuamua (First Contact Album Version)

Hadn't intended to post this track from the "To Sleep in a Sea of Stars" project, but it's grown on me...
Although inspired by the book, it's about that inexplicable wakefulness in the "wee small hours".

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Everyone's Asleep (But Me)

Always loved Peter, Paul and Mary's version of Bob Dylan's great song.

Blowing In The Wind - Cover by Tony

sunny

Ghost Heights Management Association

VybeSonix steps into the fog, crafting an electronic ritual of deep pulses, hidden rhythms, and melodies that drift just out of reach. Each track feels like a coded message — something you sense before you understand.

This EP is a doorway.
A quiet room filled with smoke, color, and secrets.
Follow the trail… and you might hear what the night has been trying to tell you.

Sound: Deep House • Electronic • Cinematic • Mystique
Created by: VybeSonix

Enter carefully.
Not everything inside was meant to be seen.

Nightfall

Azáv