China Blue's Cassini's Dream Is Out OF This World

Cassini's Dream is a fascinating album of the most interesting sounds you could possibly hear, and the sounds you hear are all compiled from twenty years of sounds from the rings of Saturn. The album was co-created with award winning composer Lance T. Massey a name that should sound familiar to most readers especially if you own a T-mobile cell phone as he's the creator of that ring tone you hear everytime you power on your cellphone. We recently spoke with visual and sound artist China Blue who collaborates with many different scientists such as Seth S. Horowitz a neuroscientist who helped discover the sounds within Saturn's rings and they had done that for NASA, which had started the whole project from the beginning, and so from there after discovering the sounds which was great to find but for the musically oriented world that most of us live in wouldn't find those as intriguing, so what I did was brought on board Lance Massey the creator of the T-mobile ring tone and he's a composer who i've worked with for a long time and I purposed the idea of putting the album together based on those sounds based on the mass and the data downloaded by Cassini the space craft and so Lance said "cool i'll do it i'll help you with it , so that was the birth of the album project The album consists of eleven tracks and each track references a different aspect of the rings so the idea was to capture some component of the rings I had actually approached NASA cause I had been seeing all the data that was being downloaded from CAssini mainly images of course, but a little more on Cassini it was a space craft that was floating around researching saturn forr twenty years and all that time it was downloading data a lot of it was imaged based data and from the north pole you could see the planet and of course the rings and as I was looking at that I was thinking as a sound based artist that the rings looked like a vinyl LP the light colored rings are primarily ice and the dark rings are a combination of ice and rubble and the black rings are called the gaps between the rings but they also could be the gaps between the songs on an LP too, so that's when I approached NASA and said I think we should work on a project where if I can see if I can find the sounds within saturn's rings, I asked are you on board with this? and they said sure, so I ended up working with Seth S. Horowitz a neuroscientist , a space scientist and also works for NASA and the two of us worked together looking at the twenty years of data from what Cassini was downloading and we were able to pull out the sounds hidden within the rings from the data and we used a dataconversion technique and we were able to identify different elements well if you can imagine the light rings are ice and there are particles of ice hitting each other and then you have the medium dark rings which are the ice and rubble and those are colliding in to each other and then as Cassini was flying through the rings all this material was hitting the space craft so the idea was to capture the elements of what occurs inside the rings and other events and that's when I turned to Lance Massey who we discussed earlier as the T-mobile ring tone creator, and I said to him you know we have these really wonderful sounds for a music oriented sound group world which most people are so let's see if we can convert this to something compelling and that everyone will want to hear. If you'd like to learn more about this great concept album and it is quite the concept to hear you can hear the whole interview we did with China Blue on our most recent Talking Hendrix show by clicking the link below to hear the show and you'll also get to hear some of the music from the album while we're talking with China as we had it playing underneath our interview with her. Talking Hendrix Show Link With China Blue From Friday November 22, 2019: https://archive.org/details/talkinghendrixshow205happy77thbirthdayjimipart2withspecialguestchinablue11222019 If you want to hear our show when it airs every week tune in friday nights from 10-11:30 p.m. on: www.bostonfreeradio.com Talking Hendrix Facebook Group Page link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/386159081588529/ Talking Hendrix Twitter Pafe please follow us here if you haven't already: https://twitter.com/HendrixTalking Our Official Blog Site: www.talkinghendrix.blogspot.com China Blue's Official Website: http://www.chinablueart.com/ and you can purchase the album "Cassini's Dream at: www.cdbaby.com