Selection of Pieces

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Y5_kxyxSI

Jupiter

Jupiter is a love letter to everybody's favorite Gas Giant and its place in Science Fiction. The album is heavy and dark, with tense guitar-driven atmospheres punctuated, from time to time, by moments of release that land like strange lullabies. Each track draws inspiration from versions of Jupiter in Arthur C. Clarke's Odyssey series, Twin Peaks, The Europa Report, and Voltaire's Micromégas. Observations made by the Juno and Cassini missions to Jovian System have provided further inspiration for the pieces.

The album begins with an imagined Stellar Ignition of Jupiter, drops in on the Galilean moon of Io to take in the daily atmospheric collapse, and then returns to Earth to witness the Great Conjunction of Jupiter with Saturn. While the project began with pure escapism in mind, I kept finding parallels between Jupiter and our current situation with the COVID-19 pandemic that tended to pull the music back down to Earth.

As a result, the pieces range stylistically from Blackgaze and Industrial flavoured Darksynth to ethereal Dream-pop with some generative music thrown in for good measure.

The beautiful cover art was designed and created by Mary Parkinson. All Hail!

Search Party

Stellification is the process by which a Jovian-class planet (a gas giant or brown dwarf ) becomes a star. It's not possible to ignite Jupiter and turn it into a star, it just doesn't have the mass needed. Regardless that's exactly what happened in Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey. There a monolith around Jupiter self-replicated rapidly around the planet increasing its mass and triggering stelification turning Jupiter into a new star named Lucifer (although he's traditionally associated with Venus, the morning star... but ok Arthur). Something similar happened in the Netflix adaption of Liu Cixin’s Wandering Earth.

This piece tries to imagine what it might be like to experience the Stellification of Jupiter from inside the windswept stormscapes of The gas giant’s tumultuous atmosphere.

Ignite The Core

No Light, But Rather

Three Years

Sonification of climate migration across the Mediterranean, ice shelf melting, floods in Pakistan, CO2 parts per million....

Climate Symphony New Piano And Strings

Mary's Theme 2016: Maya

Shell Shock (live, With Car Backing Vocals :)

Three recordings made in the rain at Terra Nostra Botanical Park, Furnas, São Miguel, Azores. 

a) geothermal stream
b) under bamboo
c) under eucalyptus

Furnas Compilation

25 Against 30 Plus 14 Beats At 100 BPM (4 Mika Vainio)

Welcome to the first episode of our podcast. Which is based around our band, "Moose in the Supermarket". With your hosts, Phil, Moe, and Sean getting the kinks worked out and discussing remakes/reboots of movies, TV, and other media. Going to update recording areas for better audio in the next couple episodes. Also I made a naming error during the podcast. It's the great Rod Serling not Sterling. Don't punish us from above!  Ok, so let us know what you all think going forward. Take care and enjoy! 

- Moose in the Supermarket; Wise Logic Liberate Studios

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