{"id":10809,"date":"2020-07-10T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10809"},"modified":"2020-07-14T12:59:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T19:59:35","slug":"metroid-sonifying-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/10\/metroid-sonifying-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Metroid Sonifying Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/games\/metroid\/best-metroid-soundtracks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from PASTE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Space Is the Place: How Metroid&#8217;s Music Captures the Essence of Space<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/writers?name=dia+lacina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dia Lacina<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"*OLD MIX* Metroid (NES) Soundtrack - 8BitStereo\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2pcLtSle714?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Challenger exploded, my parents tried to hide it from me. They did okay for a few days. But it was inevitable. They knew how fixated I was on space, how I wanted to be an astronaut, and they didn\u2019t want to take that away from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. I talk too much shit for NASA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But space still rules. Planets are cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the ways we \u201csee\u201d space and celestial phenomena is through sound. Radio waves turned into data, meaning applied to it.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ax5sAXcUfyU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">You can also get sick album art for sick albums out of it<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think a lot about how we sonify space. How we communicate emptiness, fullness, and the truly \u201calien.\u201d Mapping sound to soundless vacuum to express cosmic immensity, like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ghoulnoise.bandcamp.com\/album\/voyageur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Priscilla Snow does in&nbsp;<em>Voyageur<\/em><\/a>. There\u2019s Kubrick\u2019s usage of classic music\u2014expressive, expansive, cost-effective. Or James Horner\u2019s James Horner-ness. For every vision of space, there is a score. Jack de Quidt has managed no less than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/notquitereal.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-long-way-around-friends-at-the-table-soundtrack-season-two\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/notquitereal.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-twilight-mirage-friends-at-the-table-soundtrack-season-four\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">distinct<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/notquitereal.bandcamp.com\/album\/partizan-friends-at-the-table-soundtrack-season-six\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">visions<\/a>&nbsp;for the Milky Way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How we turn the space of space into place, pressing our apprehensions and exhilarations onto the dreams of life off-world is fascinating. Militant or gentle. Banal fantasy. A corporate nightmare. Or the unquestioning delight of \u201cdiscovery.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are made of stars, we live among them. It\u2019s fitting that our relationships to the heavens should be as complicated and diverse as the ones to ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/games\/metroid\/best-metroid-soundtracks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at PASTE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from PASTE Space Is the Place: How Metroid&#8217;s Music Captures the Essence of Space By\u00a0Dia Lacina When the Challenger exploded, my parents tried to hide it from me. They did okay for a few days. But it was inevitable. They knew how fixated I was on space, how I wanted to be an astronaut, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}