British DJ and producer Jon Hopkins just started an incredible collaboration with NASA. After an incredibly busy year, in which the DJ released a new album, entitled “RITUAL“, collaborated on the deluxe version of the band’s new album Coldplay“Lunar music“, and also collaborated on the remix of the new album by Charli XCX “Brat but he is completely different but also still bratty“the Englishman still found time to accomplish a unique feat, sending a song to Lua.
The project took place in collaboration with the North American Aerospace Agency, NASA, which commissioned the producer a single to compose his new artistic installation,”Space for Earth“. The track is called “Kept forever” and was composed together with the artist and the creative director of NASA, Erica Bernhardand with the Icelandic multi-instrumentalist Ólafur Arnolds.
Also, participate in the installation “Space for Earth“, an audiovisual experience open to the public that allows groups “Experience Earth in a way that can only be seen from space“, music will also be sent directly to the Moon, as part of the project Lunar Code, also from NASA.
THE Lunar Code is a time capsule of 35,000 works composed of pieces by contemporary writers, artists, musicians and directors. Seven “missions” have been released so far and Jon Hopkins’ new single will be part of the eighth release.
The song’s composition was inspired by Erica Bernhard’s contribution to The Time Capsule, a series of love letters from earth to space. At the end of each letter, the artist signed it with the phrase “Forever wrapped in its gravity“, which is what inspired the single’s title.
Understand the message behind Jon Hopkins’ new single
In a press release, Jon Hopkins explained that “I took the opportunity to create a fully orchestral piece. I wanted to create something timeless, which conveyed the feeling of being “held” by the Earth.“. Hopkins adds that “I was thinking about the power and fragility of our planet and the responsibility of humans in its fate“.
“The view from space offers a profound change in perspective: astronauts call it the perspective effect“Explained Brenhard, “Jon Hopkins’ composition captures this shift, infusing the sound with the vastness of space and grounding us in the essence and rhythms of life on Earth.“.
She adds that “His soundscapes serve as a bridge between these two worlds, translating all the splendor and wonder of space and Earth into an immersive sonic journey that asks us to consider our place in the universe and our responsibility to the planet.“.
Accompanying the song’s release, Jon Hopkins released a music video directed by Brenhard. The clip shows the interaction between two characters played by dancers captured in motion, Earth, composed of satellite images of the planet, and Space, composed of images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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