FOREWORD

       Throughout the history of mankind, humans have always been ever so fascinated by nature and the mysteries hidden within. In our attempt to decipher the clues and understand our place in the universe, we asked: “why are we here?”, “what is the purpose of our lives?”.
       We looked up at the sky and wondered what was out there. The sky, it was the unreachable, the beyond, so we thought “maybe that is where our answers lie”? From the very beginning of human civilization, each culture in their own way, both existing and lost, have formulated their own unique, sometimes similar ideas and theories about the objects in the sky and our relationship to them. The notion of us being simply a confluence of accidents was unrealistic. “Things are too perfect” we say. For chemistry to transform into biology, everything has to be just right. Our world is situated in a zone not too cold and not too hot; our sun not too old nor too young; our world, lots of water with ample land mass for life to propagate; most of the Earth-ending sized asteroids are deviated away thanks to our giant neighbor Jupiter; and the magnetic field of Earth protects us from the sun’s deathly rays, allowing us to formulate ideas how all these came together.

        Music and science had most likely begun at the same point, the very dawn of human civilization. Music keeps a culture alive and science pushes it forward. However, in the past, there has never been any moment as exciting as it is for science right now. With private companies rushing to get to Mars and with NASA planning on establishing a base on the Moon, we are certainly on our ways to becoming a true interplanetary civilization. Seeing so, rather than building a project around celestial bodies than light-years away – we have never even seen what they look like – I see it fitting that we scale the size of our focus down to the planets within our solar system to focus more tangible, reachable targets; something that we can easily relate to.

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OUTCOME

        This interdisciplinary project can be seen as a story-telling project that implements available 21st century tools to enhance the experienced narrative. Through this work, I hope to show that science and art are ways, be it together or by separate, through which humans use to understand their relationships in the universe. Each planet is given its own story, music, and description that are carefully constructed around the idea of the relationship between humanity and that particular planet using references borrowed from science, popular science, mythology and sci-fi.

       This project is expressed in three forms: A set of long atmospheric, spatial sonic explorations of each planet in our solar system, a research on the development of music in context of astronomy, and an application that people can download and experience the audio binaurally; an interactable version of the first one.