Since the earliest days of electronic music, composers have developed the natural relationship between electronic sounds and images of cosmic space.
Free at last from the limits of physical instruments, they could create vast stereo spaces and sustain tones endlessly, with an unlimited palette of pitch, timbre, modulation, and resonance. In time the electronic studio became a vehicle for virtual space flight. It's a theme we've been pursuing since our 23rd program back in 1983.
The waning days of winter are a particularly good time to take a cosmic vacation. Restless from too much time indoors, we seek expansive sounds and galactic spaces, filled with dark drones or floating harmonies, a sense of adventure and discovery. On this transmission of HEARTS of SPACE, an interstellar journey called COSMIC TRAVELER, with spacemusic by JONN SERRIE, DAVID PARSONS, PHILLIP WILKERSON and MEG BOWLES.
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Boy, what a throwback.Very calming as I prepare to report taxes for 2009.
BTW, this brings me to the question, does anyone know what music by Brian Eno was used in the 1985(?) PBS "Creation of the Universe" documentary narrated by Timothy Ferris? Does anyone know if it on an album?
Posted by: Richard Mitnick | 27 February 2010 at 01:42 PM
Richard, here's your answer from Steve Davis:
"The theme music for that movie was an original Brian Eno composition titled simply "Theme from 'Creation.'" The movie also used snippets of 1/1 from 'Music for Airports' and "Chemistry" from Hassell & Eno's 'Possible Music.' But I think Richard is asking about the theme music. It was released on a CD in 1988: 'Music for Films III' which is a compilation featuring Eno, Daniel Lanois, Michael Brook, Laraaji, et al."
Steve Davis
Associate Producer
HEARTS OF SPACE Radio Pgm.
Posted by: Stephen Hill | 01 March 2010 at 03:29 PM
Thank you so much, Steve Davis. I found it immediately once you told me where to look.
I have that PBS documentary, I still watch it, the science still holds up well, and I am enamored of CERN, especially now, twenty-five years after the film was made.
And, thanks to HOS, I have bought a great deal of Brian Eno over the years.
So, I figured I must have it.
I am listening to it right now. I am very appreciative of the help.
So, thanks again, Steve Davis, and, as always, thank you Stephen Hill.
Posted by: Richard Mitnick | 01 March 2010 at 06:19 PM