How we turn the space of space into place, pressing our apprehensions and exhilarations onto the dreams of life off-world is fascinating. Jack de Quidt has managed no less than three, distinct visions for the Milky Way. For every vision of space, there is a score. There’s Kubrick’s usage of classic music-expressive, expansive, cost-effective. How we communicate emptiness, fullness, and the truly “alien.” Mapping sound to soundless vacuum to express cosmic immensity, like Priscilla Snow does in Voyageur. You can also get sick album art for sick albums out of it. Radio waves turned into data, meaning applied to it. One of the ways we “see” space and celestial phenomena is through sound. Turns out you have to be a die-hard nerd, a low-key jock, AND have led an unimpeachable boring public life to be an astronaut. They knew how fixated I was on space, how I wanted to be an astronaut, and they didn’t want to take that away from me. ![]() When the Challenger exploded, my parents tried to hide it from me.
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