Space music: SETI, artist in residence and an orbital flutist

This week we have some cool bits of space music to roundup. First of all we have NASA already first and last artist in residence (air), but what is covered by SETI?

Not-for profit is the ET looking signed only multimedia artist Charles Lindsay for a three year stint as its first air, during which he will grow the program and "cross disciplinary artistic expression to explore and illuminate origin, to promote art and prevalence of life in the universe."

As you see in the image above, Lindsay's work has definitely looks like a draw. He used a camera-less, carbon-based emulsion photographic procedure. Custom ambient of soundscapes, his employer created his works-a process accompany processing that contains patterns of NASA's audio archive. Please visit his official website, some of them to hear.

As shared over at Wired, it was a good week for live music on board the international space station. In the following video, astronaut Catherine Coleman plays the flute for us in microgravity, continues a long tradition of live music in the orbit. In the past, people have taken up. everything from synths, didgeridoos. Ten days before Christmas 1965, carried out in fact, the astronauts aboard the Gemini 6 a format variant of the holiday tune "Jingle bells" with a mouth organ and bells. Anyway, here is Coleman (She whips it out around 1: 20):

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This week hear what? Well, can Luke Twyman Neverest songs before recently scored the film "All that glitters" and try the tracks right here. I interviewed Twyman in this previous space music post about his excellent solar beat space music application. It is to do good things way.

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China dismisses international concern about missing artist activist - voice of America

Stephanie HO | Beijing April 06, 2011 Chinese avant-garde artist Ai Weiwei is pictured on the theater on the Goetheplatz in Bremen, Northern Germany, on October 4, 2009.

A Chinese State newspaper is aside international concerns about the fate of prominent activist artist Ai Weiwei, brushes, the not been heard since he was arrested Sunday.

The State global Times newspaper broke Wednesday the Chinese media silence on the case of the Chinese artist activist Ai Weiwei, by running of Chinese and English language versions of an article blasting him.

An outsider Gets the 53-year-old AI, that there is a lack of respect for China's laws and has pushed the limits of the legal tolerance.? The article throws and Western critics of AI's event undermines China's human rights attack and to social and judicial sovereignty.

Authorities arrested end it AI on Sunday, after Beijing, get a flight to Hong Kong as he was.? Shortly thereafter, police searched his home and Studio, and computers and other items away.

Western Governments and human rights activists have condemned the disappearance and the artist's release.? You is also concerned about China's increasing use of arbitrary arrests of dissidents.

AI's disappear comes up in the midst of a massive crackdown lesser known Chinese lawyers and activists, following online calls for protests in China similar to as the "Jasmine revolution" demonstrations, which led to the change of Government in the Middle East.

Lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan, close in AI's family, says if AI have been detained in fact, his family should have received within 24 hours.? The lawyer says at this point the family can only conjecture and is consulting with the competent authorities.? But he said they have received no letter of formal notice and do not even know what are the main charges against him.

No comment on AI's case made officials and police.

The stocky, bearded AI is one of the most famous contemporary artists of China and the son of one of the most famous poets of China, AI Qing.? AI international for helping design the main stadium for the Beijing Olympics is 2008, nest of a bird known.

AI was increasingly critical of the Chinese Government after the earthquake in Sichuan 2008, when he in the matter of the thousands of children who were killed, as their shoddily built schools collapsed is.

Sichuan hit him authorities, when he gave it visit activist in 2009 on the trial of another earthquake, criticized the also corrupt officials for shoddy school construction.

06-04-2011 James (United States)

China all smart, intelligent and good people imprison and torture them to death for this responsible Chinese. Sooner or later it is damaged only evil, greedy and medium Chinese links in China and they will try to impose nasty Communist culture in the rest of the world. Speaking you are against the Chinese violations of human rights or to the next victim of Chinese bully preparing.

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On China pressure release dissidents artist - New York Times

The Foreign Ministry, mark toner, a spokesman said the United States "deeply the trend of forced disappear, detentions, arrests and convictions of human rights activists worried opponents of was to exercise their internationally recognized human right of freedom of expression."

The German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle said, "I appeal to the Chinese Government urgently provide clarification, and I expect Ai Weiwei be released immediately." United Kingdom and France issued similar statements.

Mr AI, 53, is the most high-profile person in a sprawling Chinese Government campaign against his critics in prison are taking. Dozens of people rounded up, some have been formally arrested on charges of inciting the Subversion and almost a dozen have disappeared in police custody.

Mr. AI has suffered in recent months a series of finger-pointing as authorities of less tolerant abuse of power have grown from his criticism of the Government. The authorities had still more leeway than other critics, seemed to him probably give due to his family status. The son of one of the most beloved poets of the country, is also an architect Mr AI, who helped design Beijing's Olympic Stadium, bird's nest.

According to Chinese lawyers, the police must inform arrested the family of someone 12 hours. After 48 hours, one legal expert said, should the family the reason for the arrest in writing.

In a telephone interview Tuesday morning Mr AI said woman, Qing Lu, who had given police her no explanation for why her husband was arrested or when he might be.

Mrs Lu, was brought together with a friend of Mr AI and eight employees of his studio of Beijing, after police stations for questioning on Sunday. All but Mr. of AI's friend, Wen Tao, were published.

Police officers also artist's Studio and home on Sunday searched. Employees said that dozens of items, including laptops, hard drives, DVDS, and cameras had confiscated.

Mrs Lu said that the police had a search warrant, but it no information about the reason for their actions. "I absolutely have no idea have, what they are looking for," she said. She said she was considering a lawyer, but had not done yet.

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Blonde to brunette: X-rays reveal artist switch

X-ray analysis in a century painting shows painted the artist first a vivid blonde woman. The artist who remains unknown, then painted over the work with a quieter brunette.

Experimenting with a vivid blonde, only to instead a dark brunette, settle is an old cliched, story-in fact, it is at least 200 years old.

A new analysis of the 19 paintings shows that the artist is a blonde with purple bands in the hair of first before painting the canvas with a calmer, unadorned brunette represented.

Change in the original version of a painting, a practice said to known as Pentimenti from the Italian Pentirsi, reverse, often, Matthias Alfeld, the presented his find March 29 at a meeting of the American Chemical Society. Case "of the artist regret" was revealed known by a technique as scan macro X-ray fluorescence at DESY, at the German Accelerator Laboratory in Hamburg. Hidden pigments without any of the images reveal stimulated by an X-ray, chemical elements in the painting Fluoresce.

The analysis revealed that the now known as "Pauline in a white dress" painting after significant changes. Noted the presence of cobalt pigment was blue in the MS bands used purple hair, and the pigment orange-red displayed vermilion from mercury was. The presence and distribution of antimony, indicating relating to Naples yellow pigment and lead, white color, suggest that the woman had to be Castle first blonde lure, which was loosely over her shoulders, the neat brown hair pulled back the visible work strongly contrasting.

"This is an indication that the artist you regretted and made it more modest," said Alfeld, the University of Antwerp, in Belgium.

This artist was remains in question. The painting is attributed to the romantic German painter Philipp Otto Runge and is considered his wife Pauline. But the attribution of many scholars is controversial. The X-ray analysis was requested the painting of the owner, who hoped that it for all the artist's identity could confirm.

The results strengthen the secret, confirmed only that an unknown artist once dallied with a blonde then but better it.

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