Name: Houston We Have a Podcast: Advancing Technologies by NASA
Duration: 30 min 30 s
Description: On episode 310, NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts leaders Mike LaPointe and John Nelson discuss unique and interesting solutions to complex spaceflight challenges.

Cousin Silas - Still Silver River

Eden Delight - Sanctified

Heliograph is a stunning amalgamation of the electronic with the organic. Recordings of electromagnetic fields generated by electronic devices gently collide with emotive piano melodies to create a truly atmospheric piece of ambient beauty. Inspired by the ever-presence of these unseen electronic worlds, Heliograph will form part of the duo's forthcoming EP Beacons.

Heliograph

Jay Cliffen & Music Within : Heliograph

Jon Neher is a musician and artist from Saskatchewan in Canada. He is also renowned for performing as part of Peace Flag Ensemble and indie band Beach Body, as well as work for his own label Fenwood Rail. Jon followed a Classical music education through piano lessons at an early age, progressing into playing Jazz as he got older before he began to explore his own compositions after he had discovered Hardcore music.
Michael Scott Dawson is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada, who was also originally from Saskatchewan. His music has been released on labels including We Are Busy Bodies, Sonder House, and also Jon’s Fenwood Rail imprint. Michael is part of the Peace Flag Ensemble, providing guitar, field recordings and subtle electronics to the sound. His Ambient albums ‘Music For Listening’ and ‘Find Yourself Lost’ have received critical acclaim, not least from Whitelabrecs and this was the starting point for the release of this album, after we got in touch with Michael to show our appreciation; announcing Music For Listening as our favourite record of 2022.
‘I Yield My Time’ is the third collaboration solely between Jon and Michael, who know each other through the music community in Saskatchewan. Their Ambient-leaning debut ‘On Remembering’ was released digitally through Fenwood Rail back in 2019. Their love of music and diverse range of influences inform their work and enable them to experiment with a wide range of ideas and genres. As can be gleaned from earlier in this text, they both perform as part of the Peace Flag Ensemble, a group whose album Astral Plains is due out in July 2023.

This album places Jon’s piano sketches at the fore, with his approach to music composition beginning with improvised sessions on his keyboard before being adapted through chance-based post production techniques. Michael took these piano sounds and processed them through an array of tape machines and pedals. Most of the additional resonances beyond the original piano recordings are actually just new versions of these. Minimal details subtly adorn the pieces, with Michael’s field recordings and modest additional instrumentation inserting frail little soft sounds into the weight and voice of the piano. There is something beautiful in this juxtaposition, as Michael found himself building little movements around the improvisations, like a tiny orchestra of broken sounds.
The album is more about the process and combination of the artists’ respective techniques, than being centred around a specific concept. However, Jon notes that he realised after completing the album that he was thinking a lot about death, with close family members being diagnosed with cancer, the failing health of his grandparents, music industry peers passing at an early age and a choir director who had lent him a Rhodes passed away. There was this weird reckoning with the idea that death can be so much and so little depending on your context, and there are drastic implications on how you might find meaning in your life as a result.
For the listener, time becomes a theme in which to concentrate ones thoughts; whether consciously or subconsciously, as the subduing echoes of delay pedals and fading keys disappear. This record will become a reflective companion, which may direct thoughts and feelings in several directions; whether this be to reflect upon the past, to be present in the moment, or wander into the future, full of hope.

Written and produced by Jon Neher & Michael Scott Dawson
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Photography by Michael Scott Dawson
Art and design by Andrew Heath

I Yield My Time

wlr139 Jon Neher & Michael Scott Dawson - I Yield My Time

7. SLOW - FAST

There are many things that we cannot accurately perceive, and the concept of "time" is probably one of them. Since ancient times, many philosophers and thinkers have explored the topic of "time," but I believe that we still do not understand time itself, let alone changes in time.

Suppose you meet a friend for the first time in 10 years. You will start with "How have you been?" or "What are you doing now?" Then you would gradually start talking about different things, trying to make up for the 10-year gap, forgetting about yourself. You left the house with plenty of time to spare, but before you knew it, it was time to go to your next destination. Such an experience is quite common. You have lost control of yourself in the midst of regular time because your consciousness has been diverted to an unexpected turn of events.

If you are listening to this track and your consciousness is directed to something other than the track, and the stronger that consciousness is, the less likely you are to notice the changes that are occurring in the track.

Our innate ability to perceive is not that strong, and the world is full of things that we cannot find unless we actively seek them out.

Produced by Hidekazu Imashige
Cover Art by Hidekazu Imashige

Transition 7

With this album, Glåsbird's 'A Sonic Expedition' draws to its close. It began at the North Pole, in the frozen waters of the Arctic Ocean and it ends at the South Pole, on the world's least populated continent; the ice-capped desolate grandeur that is Antarctica. It had been suspected that this land existed long before it had been discovered and many had died in their pursuit to find it. Some may even have died as a consequence of accidentally discovering it, through detoured voyages striking into glaciers.

The music here in Antarctica returns to Modern Classical, as the artist comes full circle. Echoes of 2019's debut album set in Greenland can be felt in places, as soaring violin and cello collide. However, these 8 tracks gather up the compositional and technical learning throughout the series, as Glåsbird looks forward to the challenges of the future.

The photography in this album is from Oceanographer Neha Ramsarup, who traveled on the South African polar vessel SA Agulhas II, deploying instruments and collecting seawater samples along the voyage from Cape Town (South Africa) to South African National Antarctic Expedition (SANAE IV). These trips are joined by a range of marine scientists, whose keen interests lie in ocean properties such as sea ice and weather as well as mammals, birds, whales and penguins who call these polar regions home.

This series of 8 albums has been a world of discovery for this anonymous composer, as their work etches into sound the hours of inspiration drawn from vintage maps, documentaries, Google Earth explorations and countless articles. Along the way, a familiar theme threads through the work as at every turn, Glåsbird's studies led to the events of climate change. The devastating effects are real, with melting glaciers, rising seas, disintegrating ice caps, wild fires, war and warming seas unintentionally finding their way into the concepts of this series.

As a clear juxtaposition to this, the sheer beauty of our world is also uncovered, with the work of visual artists helping bring this to life through the album covers and packaging imagery. There's an enormity and poignant feel to the music too, as melancholy classical notes extend through an eerie chill, or sun-bleached tapes explore hidden islands and tropical climes. The natural beauty of our world can be felt throughout this collection alongside a sense of despair too, at its apparent demise. Humans are doing what they can to build a momentum of awareness on our tired old planet, through education and urgency. It is hoped through this series that it can add to this movement somehow even if in a small way, to build a sense of care for our planet.

releases October 14, 2023

Written and produced by Glåsbird
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Photography by nehar63 - www.instagram.com/nehar63/
Art and design by Andrew Heath

Antarctica

wlr144 glåsbird - antarctica

On episode 310, NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts leaders Mike LaPointe and John Nelson discuss unique and interesting solutions to complex spaceflight challenges.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Advancing Technologies

David Poltrock is a Brussels-based composer, producer and sound designer. He’s a member of the iconic Belgian rock band ‘De Mens’ but can boast countless collaborations as a producer and keyboard player with premium Belgian and international artists such as Hooverphonic, Triggerfinger, Salvatore Adamo, Portland, Prinz Pi, Monza and many others. His first solo release as a recording artist under the Poltrock moniker was 2018’s instrumental trilogy ‘Mutes, Moods & Machines’ in which he displayed an affection for intimate piano sounds, menacing drones and pulsating electronica. Poltrock’s music met with national and international acclaim earning him a Belgian ‘Music Industry Award’ (MIA) for best musician in 2019.
Poltrock’s first albums, cinematic as they are, paved the way for an increasingly successful career as a composer for film and television. He scored award winning films such ‘Wild Gene’ (2019), the Irish documentary ‘Young Plato’ (2021), ‘Holding up The Sky’ (2023) and ‘Planeet B’ (2023) as well as critically acclaimed TV shows such as ‘Studio Tarara’ (2019) or ‘Billie vs Benjamin’ (2022). His collaboration ‘Stay’ with RAVVEL was featured prominently in the French TV show ‘Il a déjà tes yeux’ and his ambient album VACUUM (2021) with Adriaan de Roover grew into an enigmatic multidisciplinary performance with dance, video and 3D sound.
The origins of this body of work began in May 2022 as Poltrock played a random sequence of notes on a forgotten and detuned upright piano in a remote hotel in Aulus-Les-Bains in the French Pyrenees. The muffled sound of the old Yamaha sparks a creative burst of new compositions. Poltrock explored his horizons in that godforsaken place. He decided to record his four pianos, crudely and honestly, and then edited them with tape effects, cassette loops and old, analogue effects devices. The melodies were at once intimate and compelling, with a confrontational and intense sound.
Enter the Sun*Sun*Sun String Orchestra, lifelong friends and collaborators with the likes of Einstürzende Neubauten, John Cale, Belle & Sebastian and Cinematic Orchestra. They were perfect traveling companions to translate Poltrock’s whispering and intimate string compositions to tape and to create a symbiotic pairing of struck and bowed string instruments. Five years after the acclaimed trilogy ‘Mutes, Moods & Machines’ Poltrock released the ‘Aulus I’ on vinyl in May 2023 and now ‘Aulus I & II’ together, as a diptych in this double disc album mirroring the vinyl packaging design. These sounds explore the vast space between classical and electronic music, blending organic strings and piano with experimental sound design.

Composed, Recorded & Mixed by David Poltrock at the Poltrock Palladium Mastered by Taylor Duepree for 12K Mastering
Strings by the Sun*Sun*Sun Orchestra:
Jeroen Baert (VI), Yumika Lecluyze (VI, VA), Karel Coninx (VA), Seraphine Stragier (VC)
Strings recorded by Joris Caluwaert at Finster Studio
Aulus #1, Aulus #2 and Ceint (Retour) recorded at CAMP, Aulus-Les-Bains, France

*This preview includes tracks from the Aulus II album only - there are a further 8 tracks which are part of the Aulus I album

Aulus I & II

wlr147 Poltrock - Aulus I & II

Normal matter—the kind that makes up our home planet and everything we can see—adds up to just five percent of the known universe. The other 95 percent is dark matter and dark energy, a tag team that ranks among the biggest mysteries in all of science. NASA astrophysicists Jason Rhodes and Ami Choi explain how we study this dark side and why it’s making scientists reconsider what we think we know about the universe.

NASA's Curious Universe: Welcome To The Dark Side

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The Planet Of Bliss

Underwater Space

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Ashot Danielyan - Underwater Space

I Lived no matter what through all my trauma and my friends are the reason why, needa give all of you some squeezing hugs

I Lived

Squeezing hugs

Squeezing Hugs

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.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Advancing Technologies

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