Neogenesis: The Conquest of Space | Putting the 'Art' in Artemis
Putting the 'Art' in Artemis
Neogenesis
Summary
We came together to create a piece of music and a videoclip that could provide with a brief explanation about the Artemis Mission, after we developed a survey on social media to gather information about the number of people who were aware of the Artemis program in our inner circle. The song was created by using the piano as our main instrument, and then we add some computer synthesisers and more electronic instrumentation. We also wanted to pass an inspirational message about the beginning of the Space Exploration Era and the importance of both Artemis 2024 and Mars 2033 missions to all of us.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Our final result was a short videoclip with some touching images collected from Nasa and a message of inspiration for all of the generations coexisting in our present world. We believe it is important to make the Artemis mission known in all of the instances of society (not only the scientific) because it gives us a sense of hope, cooperation and inspiration to build together a better future.
With this short video, we could reach everyone, by sharing it online with friends and asking them to share them to their friends, creating a circle of knowledge about the mission very easy to achieve, since social media is one of the biggest means of information nowadays, used by everyone, everywhere. We hope we can bring awareness and raise the curiosity to search for more information about the Artemis Program, and about the importance of science itself.
How We Developed This Project
We are both musicians and we're aware of how important and powerful music can be. We wanted to create a simple but touching video that could reach as many people as possible and spread awareness about Artemis Mission.
The approach was to combine our love for both Music and Science and spread it! We used the video and audio data provided by Nasa as our basis for the video, and we combined them together by using video creating and editing programs such as Filmora and iMovie.
The problem was that neither of us is a professional video maker, but we didn't let this stop us from trying and doing what we could with the large material data that we were provided. For the music creation and composition process, we sat together and let our creativity flow, by experimenting different tonalities, melodies and instrumentation.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Our entire video was made by using images from the Nasa data, provided to us by the challenge. We also used two audios that were included in this archive. It influenced our project deeply, because we were inspired by the images to compose the piece of music and create the text for the videoclip.
Project Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m5zpID9r04 (DEMO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE0WGEXRrkA (FULL AND FINAL VERSION)
Project Code
Data & Resources
https://www.nasa.gov/connect/sounds/index.html
https://archive.org/details/nasaaudiocollection
https://images.nasa.gov
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html
https://www.nasa.gov/content/ultra-high-definition-video-gallery
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/downloadable-video-page/