In the News
What happens when Sandy Antunes, a semi-nonfamous science writer slash IT consultant, wants to go into space?
'Project Calliope' is a satellite being launched by this space & music enthusiast on the "TubeSat" platform with I-CubeX sensors. It'll be an ionospheric detector transmitting sonifiable data back to Earth for web streaming and remixing. Conceptually, it's a musical instrument in space, played by space rather than just after-the-fact sonified.
Who's Talking About Us?
MAKE has a followup post (April 28, 2011) plus an earlier short blog post about me (October 28, 2010)
I gave an Ignite talk at the SpaceUpDC conference (Aug 2010), and later created a podcast of that talk for 365DaysofAstronomy.
NPR's Audie Cornish interviewed me on July 24, 2010.
Priya Ganapati interviewd me for Wired's GadgetLab on July 20, 2010
215th AAS, Jan 7 2010: I presented at the 215th AAS. Attached is a PDF of my talk.
Jon Newton at P2PNet had the news out before anyone at "Music from space ready for lift-off! (Literally.) Thanks for the early lead, Jon!
David Noel calls us 'badass-cool' at Echolot. Okay, that made my day, equalling a private message from a friend calling me 'his favorite mad scientist'.
The very helpful Randa at Interorbital (aka the TubeSat people) emailed me SonicState's coverage of our MIDI from Space. That's two in one-- SonicState covered us, and IO likes us! Woo!
Jennifer Lanes talks about Streaming Media That's Out of This World! over at Augio4Cast... are music people quicker on the uptake than the science community?
And Hank from here talks about the stuffed mascot Bloggy Goes Cosmic. I may need to weigh out stuffed bears to see if we can cram a Bloggy into our capsule.