Electronic dance music producer Brayden Pierce has joined an effort that involves taking the genre to the cosmos.
In X, Pierce has stated that he is one of 222 creators who have contributed to the Lunaprise Museum with his theme “Capture the Moon”. The mission, which includes delivering the artists' works to the lunar surface, is said to celebrate NASA's return for the first time in more than 50 years.
According to the Beverly Hills-based production company space blue, the Lunaprise Museum exists as a permanent archive on the moon that will resonate for eternity. The “museum” is not a physical space, but data embedded in nickel discs containing a wide range of human achievements and expressions, from music to literature, languages and even the intriguing magical secrets of David Copperfield.
Capture the Moon ( Mix) officially makes history as the first electronic dance song on the (real) moon. On 02/22/24, Brayden Pierce became 1 of 222 artists who made history when select artworks landed on the moon via the SpaceX Falcon 9, celebrating… pic.twitter.com/cloqD0mabR
– Brayden Pierce (@braydenpierce) February 23, 2024
Artists and creators submitted their works to be part of the Lunaprise Museum through a process facilitated by Space Blue. The organization invited artists to submit images or data representing their work, which were then intricately inscribed on the discs on a microscopic scale, a method that ensures durability and longevity even in the harsh lunar environment, according to artnet.
The process allowed an incredible amount of data and art to be compactly stored. The disks are capable of containing 77,000 so-called “Lunagrams”, a term coined for the microscopic deliverables.
As for the drive's ability to retain data, Pierce has no doubts. “This little disk lasts for a billion years,” he said. Artnet. “The pyramids have only been around for a few thousand years.”
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