Astron by Francesco Novara
RELEASE: FRANCESCO NOVARA – ASTRON EP [Establishment]
Ignition (3:08)
S.O.S. (5:29)
Sexy Astronaut (3:59)
Back Home (5:41)
Ready to Fly (3:21)
Format: Digital (EP)
Release date: 8 September 2017
Fresh wonders of space exploration continue to awe and inspire artists. In a new downtempo release, Italian composer Francesco Novara delivers an EP fabricated from just two sound samples of a European spacecraft that visited (and landed on) a comet. It marks a unique collaboration between record label Establishment and the multinational European Space Agency ESA.
Francesco Novara was born in a small city out of Venice, and gave up a first dream of art restoration to focus on music. After ten years at the music department of the storied Fabrica research center, Novara has made a name as a prodigious composer, from documentary soundtracks to advertising – and composed music for a launch of an ESA satellite, inaugurating a unique relationship that would give birth to this EP.
All proceeds from this album will be used to support open use of sound and sonification of space exploration.
Tracklist
| 1. | Ignition | 3:08 |
| 2. | S.O.S. | 5:29 |
| 3. | Sexy Astronaut | 3:59 |
| 4. | Back Home | 5:41 |
| 5. | Ready to Fly | 3:21 |
Credits
Mastering: Cem Oral.
Design: Marijn Degenaar.
Sampled material:
Original Data Credit: ESA/Rosetta/RPC/RPC-MAG
Sonification: TU Braunschweig/IGEP/Manuel Senfft, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Rosetta end of operations confirmation by European Space Agency CC-BY-SA 3.0
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Cover image credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
License
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.Recommendations
