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)

Another track for this album this time in a colder setting, exploring more bells and different synths on Komplete Kontrol as well as Logic. 

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Tillota's Tundra

Morphine dulled the pain but he never recovered his true soul

Bela's Tears

Tonight, at all the bars

Could it be that we are in the afterlife?
Only lies and malice hold reality together.
A town where it never rains and 
a town that no longer needs rain.

Tonight, at all the closed-down bars.
The ghosts may curse the future.

Another name for the network is chaos.
Entropy is on the verge of runaway.
A view we've never seen before and 
a view we don't need to see anymore.

Tonight, at all the closed-down bars.
The ghosts may mourn themselves.

We're queuing up in front of the closed door.
Unfortunately, no one knows why.
Could it be that we are in the afterlife?
None of the people on the street were breathing.

Tonight, at all the closed-down bars.
The ghosts may curse the future.

Tonight, at all the closed-down bars.
The ghosts may mourn themselves.

Tonight, at all the bars

This is the 4th track of the upcoming album "Numeri Di Plastica:Re[t]", called "Apatia In Stringhe" aka "Apathy made of Strings".
This is a progressive IDM/Electronic/Ambient crossover song with many DROPS featuring many samples from 99 Problems of Jay-Z to early 50s Radio content and, as usual, of italian Rapper Fonzy Vincent.
WATCH OUT FOR THE DROPS!
I tried to create, again, something high and cultured despite of the "EDM and Classical background" which may be thought as something very uncultured and "easy".

Numeri Di Plastica: Re[t]

Apatia In Stringhe

Original by The Beatles year 1969
Drum, bass, vocals and mix : PJ Project
Other instruments : PdB Orchestra

Come Together W/ PdB Orchestra

The last Angel remix provided by Motion X. "Fallen Angel"
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Angel (Motion X Remix)

Instrumental Track I wrote ,with Sound Libraries that add to the textures and Colours in the Blend of the Mix.

The Way Of Life

February's First Flower - Το Πρώτο Άνθος Του Φεβρουαρίου

LEFT OVER (feat. MadD3E)

King

Experimental Electronic Music & IDM


BFA in Electronic Music - Vicenza's Conservatory
B.Sc in Mechatronic Engineering - Padua's University

Apatia In Stringhe

Sem3ion