Interstellar beats.
How would you compose a track meant to communicate with alien life?
That’s the problem that 33 artists had to solve when Sónar Festival asked them to write just 10 seconds of music each, to be sent out as a radio message as part of its 25th birthday celebrations this year.
To find out, we visited participating artist Daedelus at his studio in Los Angeles, where he let us in on the concept behind his track, what production tricks he used and the challenges of fitting it into a tiny eight bytes of audio.
Daedelus will be debuting new live set Panoptes at Sónar Barcelona 2018, a kinetic light show that promises to be one of the festival’s highlights. Find tickets and more details at the Sónar website.
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Great example of why overthinking stuff never works out. If most people on this planet can't digest your music, neither are 👽
Wait so what happens if they are busy when that massage hits and they don’t even hear it
NASA already sent Beethoven's 5th into Space with the famous four-note opening motif. You think this has any merit compared to that? Lest not forget JS Bach, the absolute master of perfection.
why not just write an entire song, speed it up to 555 BPM or more until it condenses to suit time/size requirements?!
We can be killed because of this shit!
The level of suckage is truly superluminous. Those sideburns dough..
Anybody else recognizes the significance of this piece in comparison to f.e. Bach ? Aliens will think, humans are braindead. Unacceptable, that money and production have fed this guy. It does not represent anything human its not even science. Im heading back to my spaceship and leave right now 😉
id rather try to understand Daedelus
With those 10 seconds he just declared war of the world.
Why assume extra terrestrial beings perceive sound in the same frequency spectrum that we do?! As always we think ourselves as the centre of the universe
please ask the Producer called – Underbelly
I guess i've to study those atmospheres !
Very very cool idea. And I can't think of a better producer than Daedelus to send out those cosmic tunes
Really???
Yaaaaaas!!!! I've been waiting eagerly since Daedelus announced he was approached to do this. Now to actually watch the video, having gushed, liked, and shared it at 0:02 in
Cool!
major and minor chords neglect over half of our world's musical scale systems–so, no, they don't represent what we understand about music and math. They represent Western cultural traditions only.
is diz a joke?
Brehh 🤦🏾♂️💀💀
his sideburns provide analog warmth
Putting speakers deep inside the ocean is a much better use of time and money. At least the fish will hear the track.
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this guy fucks me right off. Imagine some fucking alien gets this and decides to invade? Fuck this guy. He's an ultra-hipster-dude gone wrong thinking this is 'super' cool and funny etc. And could it be catastrophic!! Get your fucking haircut you ponce.
Wolverine trying to contact aliens
I like your hair
This is 👌. It could have been overkill, but the balance was spot on.
u wot