If you have ever had the uniquely particular need to play an instrument remotely from hundreds of miles away, there’s a new Kickstarter marketing campaign price a look.
First unearthed by our pals at MusicTech, the mission, titled “Blue Marble: Put a Music Synthesizer in Space!” is aiming to launch a synthesizer into orbit—one which solely works in zero gravity, at that. Its organizers are working to lift $50,000 to make the mission a actuality.
The Blue Marble Synthesizer is housed in a proprietary capsule resembling a miniature spaceship, the place it interacts with a floating marble and a vary of sensors to generate audio and visible information. This information can then be accessed and manipulated by customers from house on Earth by an interactive, web-based interface or VST plugin.

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Additionally, a choose subset of the marketing campaign’s supporters will even acquire entry to a dwell mode function, permitting them to work together with the system in real-time, albeit one consumer at a time.
Followers of the marketing campaign may even have new music to find as Andrew Huang, Benn Jordan, Trovarsi and Maysun are all becoming a member of the synthesizer’s orbital mission and can produce music for a particular post-mission album launch. The timeline to launch the Blue Marble Synthesizer is November 1st, 2023 aboard the Space X Falcon 9 Rocket.
You can learn extra in regards to the Blue Marble and contribute to the mission’s fundraising effort right here.
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