This is the release version of the album I've been working on for the last three months of my life. Thank you to all my listeners for your support and I hope you enjoy this version, which has been professionally mastered.

The bandcamp version comes with a 20 page colour digital booklet featuring many of the cosmological structures the album focuses on:
https://marcdauncey.bandcamp.com/album/cosmos

"The album is a darkly satirical look at humanity’s relationship with the cosmos. Looking into the near future where human beings mine asteroids for precious metals with all the attendant exploitation present in terra-based industries today. We start from the sun and move outwards. 

Heavy Metal Rain On Venus is stark warning on the consequences of climate change on earth, presenting a literal hellscape of molten metal raining on the scorched plains. 

Next we view Earth through alien eyes recieving the scrambled &  babbling radio signals we’ve been emitting for over a century, before moving on through the solar system taking in comets, asteroids and moons of Saturn and Jupiter. 

The album then leaves the solar system with Voyager 2, takes us to the deepest darkest interstellar voids before leaving us standing on the shore of an alien planet buzzing with life.

I wanted to base each piece on my emotional reaction to the location in question, which turns out to be a mixture of awe and even fear. These are after all, huge natural forces the scope of which is so much larger that our tiny lives. So when I think about places like the bootes void, millions of light years of nothing, I try to imagine what it would be like to be in the middle of that, just for a split second. A place so alien, dark and cold that it defies any human experience. It is that strangeness and mystery that I wanted to capture in my music. We are made of the same stuff as all of these structures. The universe exists within and without us.

I'm influenced by so many great musicians who've addressed this subject matter in the past. Eno & Tangerine Dream spring instantly to mind. But also nineties ambient like the sadly missed Pete Namlook, Monolake, modern classical composers like Max RIchter, Philip Glass and even drone rockers like Sun o:))). I was watching Star Trek alongside producing these and that is also a huge influence. I hope you enjoy listening to these songs."

Buy On Bandcamp

Marc Dauncey - Cosmos LP (release version)

Heavy Metal Rain On Venus (Atomic Weight Breakbeat Mix)

Earth

Heavy Metal Rain On Venus (Ansound Rework)

Mining The Asteriod Belt (Breaking Rocks Album Version)

"The requirements for life on Earth, its elemental composition, and its environmental limits provide a way to assess the habitability of exoplanets. Temperature is key both because of its influence on liquid water and because it can be directly estimated from orbital and climate models of exoplanetary systems. Life can grow and reproduce at temperatures as low as −15 °C, and as high as 122 °C. Studies of life in extreme deserts show that on a dry world, even a small amount of rain, fog, snow, and even atmospheric humidity can be adequate for photosynthetic production producing a small but detectable microbial community. Life is able to use light at levels less than 10−5 of the solar flux at Earth. UV or ionizing radiation can be tolerated by many microorganisms at very high levels and is unlikely to be life limiting on an exoplanet. Biologically available nitrogen may limit habitability. Levels of O2 over a few percent on an exoplanet would be consistent with the presence of multicellular organisms and high levels of O2 on Earth-like worlds indicate oxygenic photosynthesis. Other factors such as pH and salinity are likely to vary and not limit life over an entire planet or moon."

Life On Exoplanets Part II

Welsh musician and composer. 

I've worked on a number of films including horror, drama and comedy titles as well as releasing several EPs and an album, available from Bandcamp, Tidal and the usual channels.  I'm not relasing any more stuff on Spotify though.

A film I worked on, The Unknown won an award in the 2021 Rome International Film Festival: https://romeinternationalmovieaward.blogspot.com/2021/11/october-2021-winners.html

Please note: I'm up to the limit of how many people I can follow on my artist account. Follow me on my other account for the band which isn't up to the limit yet and I'll be happy to follow you back, and repost your music. https://soundcloud.com/user-143402411

Most of my tracks are downloadable on here, unless there's some reason I can't share it (like it's part of a score for an unreleased film). I'd prefer people to download my music to keep, than tech companies like soundcloud earning ad revenue on it and paying artists a pittance, so knock yourselves out. Of course you can always buy it on Bandcamp if you wish!