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Kraftwerk played live with an astronaut on the ISS (2018)

145 points by CaliforniaKarl 6y ago

vr46 6y ago
Well, that was outstanding. i haven't seen Kraftwerk live since 1991 or 1992 but that was a gig I will never forget, and they're still changing and adapting. I wish I'd had the money to get tickets for their Italian gigs.
- squeaky-clean 6y ago
  > and they're still changing and adapting Saw them for the first time in maybe 2014 or so. I hadn't followed much about them except listening to their music, so I was expecting them to be playing with a full setup of vintage 70's gear, mainly because there are a lot of other groups formed in the 70s who are still big and are doing that. I was really excited to see them mostly using iPads and microsoft Surfaces hooked up to several keyboards and other MIDI controllers. I think they just always want to be trying out the newest musical tech.
  - vr46 6y ago
    It seems like an enormous amount of effort just to make your entire life an excuse to fiddle with tech, lol. Long may they continue
- apeacox 6y ago
  watched them live last year in Teatro Antico di Ostia, wonderful show to see them live, worth the ticket price.
montenegrohugo 6y ago
Expect to see stuff like this become more and more "normal" in the future, thanks to access to space becoming drastically cheaper. Falcon 9/Dragon seats are now available for civilian purchase, as well as license to stay on the ISS. Some examples: Axiom Space [1] plans to send three private passengers to the ISS on 2021, as well as adding their own commercial modules to the ISS. Tom Cruise seems pretty set on filming his next movie in space too [2]. Furthermore, if the Starship [3] project is successful, space is going to become _cheap_, perhaps even to the point that anyone in the upper middle class might be able to purchase a ride. Exciting times. [1] https://www.axiomspace.com/ https://www.axiomspace.com/ [2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/5/21248460/nasa-tom-cruise-movie-international-space-station https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/5/21248460/nasa-tom-cruise-m... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship
- yung0 6y ago
  This has almost nothing to do with the post.
- irjustin 6y ago
  I'd love to see the agreement that allows a movie to be shot in space. If they were to pay for the seats directly, it would be too much of the movie's budget. Regardless, love to see it happen.
- the_pwner224 6y ago
  > Axiom Space [1] plans to send three private passengers to the ISS on 2021, as well as adding their own commercial modules to the ISS. I just love when a super expensive taxpayer-funded space station (which is apparently also inefficient at science/$) gets used to make rich people richer.
  - whatshisface 6y ago
    If that gets you riled up, just wait until you hear how much commercial freight is transported over the interstates!
  - jordanthoms 6y ago
    If you had bothered to do any research before posting this, you'd have found that the private passengers will pay $33,750 per night to be there, plus $105 each day per bag stowed, $42/kwh for power, and $50/gb for internet. https://www.nasa.gov/leo-economy/commercial-use/pricing-policy https://www.nasa.gov/leo-economy/commercial-use/pricing-poli...
    - def8cefe 6y ago
      $50/GB is less than some cellular overage fees.
- simias 6y ago
  I feel like shooting a movie in space would make for very good marketing but rather boring footage. Very cramped quarters, very drastic security measures would probably make for rather unimpressive footage compared to what's usually achieved through CGI. Space is big, space is slow, space is quiet. It will be quite an interesting challenge to make it look visually interesting in an action movie I think. Although I suppose that watching the movie knowing that it was actually shot in space will be novelty enough to keep the audience captivated, but that'll only work for the first few movies going through the hassle of doing it, then the novelty will wear off and I expect that at that point people will be back to using much cheaper, simple and flexible CGI.
Zenst 6y ago
Reminded of JMJ colab in 1986 and was supposed to play a concert with a Ron playing saxophone up in space. Sadly tragedy curtailed that endeavour. https://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/05/us/challenger-astronaut-and-saxophone/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/05/us/challenger-astronaut-a...
pulkitsh1234 6y ago
Amazing, I got chills watching this.
zubspace 6y ago
Also reminds me of "Space Oddity" [1] performed by Chris Hadfield [2] in 2013 on the IIS. He even released an album with songs recorded up there [3]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hadfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hadfield [3] https://music.apple.com/ca/album/space-sessions-songs-from-a-tin-can/1021790892 https://music.apple.com/ca/album/space-sessions-songs-from-a...
CWuestefeld 6y ago
Here's the first time bagpipes were played in space, aboard the ISS. https://time.com/4104158/international-space-station-bagpipe/ https://time.com/4104158/international-space-station-bagpipe... The twist here is that the astronaut was honoring a good friend of mine after he'd died. My buddy Vic trained the astronauts on medical matters and first aid. He showed my how you can't do CPR in space the normal way, because you'll just push yourself across the room, so there's special stuff like this that they need to be trained in. He gave me the real back-stage tour in Houston, which was incredibly cool. One nifty thing he showed my was how they simulate the communications delay in training. It's remarkably easy and obvious: they just use Tivos.
cuspycode 6y ago
I am reminded of astronaut Cady Coleman's flute duet with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, in 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeC4nqBB5BM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeC4nqBB5BM
jll29 6y ago
+1
- deleted 6y ago
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degenerate 6y ago
Here's the video: https://youtu.be/rCQEzgtWv-E https://youtu.be/rCQEzgtWv-E
supernova87a 6y ago
I'm very curious to know as a side point -- what kind of communications path goes to the ISS? Or for example, when SpaceX's rockets live stream the video during launch? The video quality on those broadcasts is really good. The diagram in that article is only a cartoon representation, I'd love to know actually how the signal gets carried. Do they purely use ground-station-direct-to-orbit path, or is there some satellite-to-satellite "routing" of the transmission? Do they use some NASA ground station network, or pipe it through commercial ones as well? What kinds of frequencies are being used? Microwave (X/Ku/etc?-bands)?
FrojoS 6y ago
Is there an app that I can use to create similar sounds as AstroAlex directly on my iPhone? Lemur (which was used here) seems to best just a remote for synthesizers, correct? Also, 25 bucks is quite steep for just playing around.
- ericwood 6y ago
  Correct, Lemur is just a remote. I've heard great things about TouchOSC, which would fill a similar role at a fraction of the cost: https://hexler.net/products/touchosc https://hexler.net/products/touchosc
- zimpenfish 6y ago
  SynthScaper[1] could definitely make those sounds. Mind you, probably most of the Korg iOS synths can probably do it too. [1] https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com/2017/07/synthscaper-soundscapes-synthesizer.html https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com/2017/07/synthscaper-s...
based2 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Love_(Kraftwerk_song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Love_(Kraftwerk_song) https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/048927-000-A/kraftwerk-pop-art/ https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/048927-000-A/kraftwerk-pop-art...

vr46 6y ago

Well, that was outstanding. i haven't seen Kraftwerk live since 1991 or 1992 but that was a gig I will never forget, and they're still changing and adapting. I wish I'd had the money to get tickets for their Italian gigs.

squeaky-clean 6y ago
> and they're still changing and adapting Saw them for the first time in maybe 2014 or so. I hadn't followed much about them except listening to their music, so I was expecting them to be playing with a full setup of vintage 70's gear, mainly because there are a lot of other groups formed in the 70s who are still big and are doing that. I was really excited to see them mostly using iPads and microsoft Surfaces hooked up to several keyboards and other MIDI controllers. I think they just always want to be trying out the newest musical tech.
- vr46 6y ago
  It seems like an enormous amount of effort just to make your entire life an excuse to fiddle with tech, lol. Long may they continue
apeacox 6y ago
watched them live last year in Teatro Antico di Ostia, wonderful show to see them live, worth the ticket price.

montenegrohugo 6y ago

Expect to see stuff like this become more and more "normal" in the future, thanks to access to space becoming drastically cheaper. Falcon 9/Dragon seats are now available for civilian purchase, as well as license to stay on the ISS. Some examples: Axiom Space [1] plans to send three private passengers to the ISS on 2021, as well as adding their own commercial modules to the ISS. Tom Cruise seems pretty set on filming his next movie in space too [2]. Furthermore, if the Starship [3] project is successful, space is going to become _cheap_, perhaps even to the point that anyone in the upper middle class might be able to purchase a ride. Exciting times. [1] https://www.axiomspace.com/ https://www.axiomspace.com/ [2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/5/21248460/nasa-tom-cruise-movie-international-space-station https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/5/21248460/nasa-tom-cruise-m... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship

yung0 6y ago
This has almost nothing to do with the post.
irjustin 6y ago
I'd love to see the agreement that allows a movie to be shot in space. If they were to pay for the seats directly, it would be too much of the movie's budget. Regardless, love to see it happen.
the_pwner224 6y ago
> Axiom Space [1] plans to send three private passengers to the ISS on 2021, as well as adding their own commercial modules to the ISS. I just love when a super expensive taxpayer-funded space station (which is apparently also inefficient at science/$) gets used to make rich people richer.
- whatshisface 6y ago
  If that gets you riled up, just wait until you hear how much commercial freight is transported over the interstates!
- jordanthoms 6y ago
  If you had bothered to do any research before posting this, you'd have found that the private passengers will pay $33,750 per night to be there, plus $105 each day per bag stowed, $42/kwh for power, and $50/gb for internet. https://www.nasa.gov/leo-economy/commercial-use/pricing-policy https://www.nasa.gov/leo-economy/commercial-use/pricing-poli...
  - def8cefe 6y ago
    $50/GB is less than some cellular overage fees.
simias 6y ago
I feel like shooting a movie in space would make for very good marketing but rather boring footage. Very cramped quarters, very drastic security measures would probably make for rather unimpressive footage compared to what's usually achieved through CGI. Space is big, space is slow, space is quiet. It will be quite an interesting challenge to make it look visually interesting in an action movie I think. Although I suppose that watching the movie knowing that it was actually shot in space will be novelty enough to keep the audience captivated, but that'll only work for the first few movies going through the hassle of doing it, then the novelty will wear off and I expect that at that point people will be back to using much cheaper, simple and flexible CGI.

Zenst 6y ago

Reminded of JMJ colab in 1986 and was supposed to play a concert with a Ron playing saxophone up in space. Sadly tragedy curtailed that endeavour. https://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/05/us/challenger-astronaut-and-saxophone/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/05/us/challenger-astronaut-a...

pulkitsh1234 6y ago

Amazing, I got chills watching this.

zubspace 6y ago

Also reminds me of "Space Oddity" [1] performed by Chris Hadfield [2] in 2013 on the IIS. He even released an album with songs recorded up there [3]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hadfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hadfield [3] https://music.apple.com/ca/album/space-sessions-songs-from-a-tin-can/1021790892 https://music.apple.com/ca/album/space-sessions-songs-from-a...

CWuestefeld 6y ago

Here's the first time bagpipes were played in space, aboard the ISS. https://time.com/4104158/international-space-station-bagpipe/ https://time.com/4104158/international-space-station-bagpipe... The twist here is that the astronaut was honoring a good friend of mine after he'd died. My buddy Vic trained the astronauts on medical matters and first aid. He showed my how you can't do CPR in space the normal way, because you'll just push yourself across the room, so there's special stuff like this that they need to be trained in. He gave me the real back-stage tour in Houston, which was incredibly cool. One nifty thing he showed my was how they simulate the communications delay in training. It's remarkably easy and obvious: they just use Tivos.

cuspycode 6y ago

I am reminded of astronaut Cady Coleman's flute duet with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, in 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeC4nqBB5BM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeC4nqBB5BM

jll29 6y ago

deleted 6y ago
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degenerate 6y ago

Here's the video: https://youtu.be/rCQEzgtWv-E https://youtu.be/rCQEzgtWv-E

supernova87a 6y ago

I'm very curious to know as a side point -- what kind of communications path goes to the ISS? Or for example, when SpaceX's rockets live stream the video during launch? The video quality on those broadcasts is really good. The diagram in that article is only a cartoon representation, I'd love to know actually how the signal gets carried. Do they purely use ground-station-direct-to-orbit path, or is there some satellite-to-satellite "routing" of the transmission? Do they use some NASA ground station network, or pipe it through commercial ones as well? What kinds of frequencies are being used? Microwave (X/Ku/etc?-bands)?

FrojoS 6y ago

Is there an app that I can use to create similar sounds as AstroAlex directly on my iPhone? Lemur (which was used here) seems to best just a remote for synthesizers, correct? Also, 25 bucks is quite steep for just playing around.

ericwood 6y ago
Correct, Lemur is just a remote. I've heard great things about TouchOSC, which would fill a similar role at a fraction of the cost: https://hexler.net/products/touchosc https://hexler.net/products/touchosc
zimpenfish 6y ago
SynthScaper[1] could definitely make those sounds. Mind you, probably most of the Korg iOS synths can probably do it too. [1] https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com/2017/07/synthscaper-soundscapes-synthesizer.html https://motion-soundscape.blogspot.com/2017/07/synthscaper-s...

based2 6y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Love_(Kraftwerk_song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Love_(Kraftwerk_song) https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/048927-000-A/kraftwerk-pop-art/ https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/048927-000-A/kraftwerk-pop-art...