Selection of Pieces

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

Jupiter

In 2017 while looking for Planet 9 (yes! a hypothesised 9th planet that is believed to exist but has not yet been seen), scientists stumbled across Valetudo. Valetudo is a tiny moon of Jupiter 1km across orbiting alongside Jupiter's retrograde moons.

As of 2018 Jupiter has 79 moons and the 33 outermost moons all orbit Jupiter in the opposite direction of its spin. Not Valetudo though. Valetudeo orbits in prograde, following Jupiter's spin on a course that takes it right through the orbits of Jupiter's outermost moons.

This is weird, and it has been dubbed the “Odball” moon as a result. But I like to think of Valetudo as quirky rather than odd and brave rather than dumb. That being said, Valetudo will probably smash headlong into another moon sooner or later, but until then we should celebrate this maverick! To Valetudo! The Wandering Moon!

The Wandering Moon

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

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

The Wandering Moon

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