"Space" music from audio materials NASA

Space agency NASA in October 2014 has brought account on SoundCloud , which lays out the sound files recorded during the historical missions of previous years, as well as current operations . For example, here sounds rocket engines , but here sounds of radio waves in the Earth's atmosphere and the signals of the first Soviet satellite.

Collection NASA attracted the attention of professional musicians from the band Fabrica Music Area . They used the archive as a source of samples to compose his own music.

A total of four compositions, united in the album 80UA . The album's title coined in accordance with the size of the Solar System in astronomical units (Astronomical Units).

The first track "Express 999" is inspired by the anime "Galaxy Express 999", in which steam locomotive with cars traveling through space.



The second track "Yellowknife Bay" was named for the area, which investigated the rover Curiosity. For bass in the end to use the sounds from the telescope Kepler. On словам author of the music, this is the most powerful bass, which he had heard in recent times.

The third song is called «V1 | 130" in honor of the spacecraft Voyager 1, launched in 1977. He is now 130 astronomical units from Earth.

Finally, the fourth song - "Northern Crown» (Corona Borealis), the name of a small constellation in the northern hemisphere. This is one of my favorite constellations of the famous scientist and science popularizer Carl Sagan.

Tracks are published on the day of the 12th anniversary of Creative Commons, under a free license, which allows for any broadcast and download music.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/243743/