Roberto B (@user-55822457) and I now present track 12, "Egeia", in our album in progress "Midnight Coffee". We hope you'll enjoy it.

Created in collaboration on 1 July and 1 September 2021 (initial and final mix and recording, respectively, in MAGIX by Roberto B), and 29, 30 and 31 August (intermediate additions, mix and recording in GarageBand and Logic Pro X by Alex M), and posted here on SoundCloud on 3 September 2021 (by Alex M). The used sound effects come from Alex M's own sample - Gentle Early Morning Sea Waves (recorded on 26 August 2021, on the beach in Kariani, Aegean Sea coast, north Greece).

The artwork cover is designed and implemented by Alex M on 29 June 2021 (in Tayasui Sketch in Mac OS), and cropped and annotated by Alex M (in Mac OS Preview) on 30 June 2021.

Thank you so much, Roberto - for the beautiful musical ideas and our collaborations!

Duration: 7:40 minutes

Egeia - Roberto B & Alex M

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)

"night blue" - programmed & performed by joerxworx :-)
photo: Bruxelles by night, Alexandre Debiève, unsplash

night blue

video version also available: https://youtu.be/fbGmDZCdPuo

I am told I’m out of tune
It should not disturb me so much
But it has happened before
So this time I sat long hours
In intensity or perseveration
I reeled in my discordancies
Yoked my Pegasi to the cart
Made everything work to my goal
And it sounded fine
It didn’t even whisper “wrong”
Or give me a gentle poke in the eardrum
But I am told I’m out of tune
And it echoes my life
For the grand They changes the rules
Moves the goalposts
Assesses new penalties
My road less travelled 
Has become a tangle of vines
A confusion of boulders
No path at all
My compass spins useless in magnetic anomaly
I am so out of it
My dreams have become strangers to me
I am become a seeker of nonexistences
And say Vive la Difference
In a world playing Convergence of the Systems
The scifi writers are too pedestrian
The Revelationists righter than they know
But still not enough to mark the calendar
And I stand on the verge of an abyss
Inhabited by terminally grumpy old men
Mediocre poets
And spoiled-brat lyricists
Where even Dante might throw up his pen
And really nothing has occurred 
To occasion such a rant as this
But I am told I’m out of tune

OUTATUNE

The Older I Get

I am nothing without my music

R.I.P Schnalz mastering

TRAPP€D

Flow ! - enjoy :-) ...... photo: Fabrício Severo on unsplash

flow

There was a piano chord first. There was also a fiddle melody and a quiet bass. But while I was making it, everything went away. And it became a song that the sound was powerful for the first time. It's definitely a song I made. But, well, I can't think of a title. The first title is "Midnight Composer", but let's make it next.

I got the power with voice, guitar and modular (work 172) 2021 - 12 - 05 2120

because he first loved us.

For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

Cruzin Tha Block PT.2

Antihero - Good2BKing

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La vita è bella
💗 💗 💗 💗 💗 💗 
💊 💊 💊 💊 💊 💊
We need god

TRAPP€D

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