«Above the Earth with a comet». Video version

In October 2024, a relatively bright comet shines in the evening sky of the Earth. Its photos are all over social networks, and astronomy enthusiasts have put everything else aside and focused their attention on the tailed guest, which is called «C / 2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)». It was discovered in 2023 independently at two observatories - the Chinese "Tsuchinshan" and the South African Astronomical Observatory - by the robotic system "ATLAS" (the purpose of which is to detect in advance potentially dangerous celestial objects for the Earth - comets and asteroids, but this comet does not pose a danger).

In the next couple of weeks, comet «C / 2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan - ATLAS)» will move along the northern part of the constellation Ophiuchus. Its brightness is currently close to the 3rd stellar magnitude - this is slightly higher than predicted, but still not enough to easily see the comet against the background of a bright twilight sky in the city. You will need binoculars or other light optics. The comet has already passed perihelion (the closest point to the Sun in its orbit) and is now moving away from it, which means its brightness will decrease (although sudden changes in brightness are not excluded).

Among my melodies there are several dedicated to comets. One of them is present in the 6th album of the cycle «Music of Celestial Spheres» and is called «Above the Earth with a Comet». Today I combined it with the most impressive photographs taken by the best astrophotographers of the Earth.

• Yungshih Lee https://www.astrobin.com/trbnof/
• Alla Shumko https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1998187900627454
• Aleix Roig https://www.astrobin.com/uhop6n/
• Andrey Nikolenko https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2328768487488648
• Peter Greig https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10169439681055402
• Petr Horálek https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10230758819851540
• Dan Zafra https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1062607742170116
• Łukasz Żak https://www.astrobin.com/ljxh6i/
• Gabriel Zaparolli https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241004.html
• Gergely Tóth https://www.astrobin.com/umfirj/C/
• Rogelio Bernal Andreo https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1079267883775312 & https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1081348596900574

The full album «Music of Celestial Spheres - part 6 - story of a fallen star» is presented here:

• Bandcamp: https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/music-of-celestial-spheres-part-6-story-of-a-fallen-star

You can buy and download a digital version in CD quality.

Clear skies to all!

Μουσική των Ουράνιων Σφαιρών — μέρος 1 — από το σούρουπο ως την αυγή

Friends, some of you know, and for some this will be news, but such a phenomenon as “Music of the Spheres” or “Music of the Celestial Spheres” came to us from ancient Greece (as well as many other things). Cosmos is a Greek word, and it means — neither more nor less — "Order". Music and Harmony are also Greek concepts. The desire of Greek philosophers to understand the structure of the World in which we live combined Music and the order of movement of the heavenly bodies in such a way that each planet or star had its own specific tonality or note, and the sound of these notes created Harmony. These were absolutely no joke researches — relying on them, the smartest people of that era found for themselves and other people the meaning of our lives (what do we live for?) and the rules, following which you can live your life happily, without suffering, because the laws of harmony are the same in Heaven and on Earth. It’s just that for now there is less Harmony on Earth, and more disharmony — disorderly, incoherent, out of step with the sound of each of us. But the Music of the Spheres can change this — at least, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and many other thinkers of ancient Greece thought so. Just as a tuner compares the sound of a string and the tuning fork by which he tunes it, so people had to compare their deeds and actions with how harmonious they are with what the Cosmos sounds around us.

More than two thousand years have passed since then, but these ideas are still relevant. And a person finds happiness only when he is in harmonious resonance with the World around him. Well, if for some reason this resonance is suddenly upset, the Music of the Spheres still helps to return it.

When I recorded my first music album (in 1997) I didn't know any of this. But I intuitively searched for harmony and resonance of sound with the vibrations of the World, with the barely audible singing of the stars. When the record was ready, I finally thought about what to call it. At some point, a hint seemed to flash in my mind — “Call it “Music of the Celestial Spheres”.” And I gave it exactly that name, although at the time I had no real idea what I was dealing with.

Over the years, I then found amazing examples of other musicians and scientists going through a similar path. Johannes Kepler devoted many years of his life to attempts to create the “Music of the Spheres” based on mathematics and celestial mechanics. But in my search there was more of a desire not to calculate cosmic melodies, but to feel them with my heart, if such a thing is at all possible. It seems to me that I managed to feel something. In any case, many of my listeners who left reviews for that very first album uploaded to Youtube think the same.

Most of the time, this album was published in Russian and English versions. A couple of years ago I published an album with translations into Spanish and Chinese. And only recently I remembered that the idea of “Music of the Spheres” is of Greek origin, and that I simply must publish the Greek version of the album “Music of the Celestial Spheres”. My colleague, artist and singer Nataliya Victoria, who has lived in Athens for many years, helped me with this. And now the first album of the “Music of the Celestial Spheres” cycle has been uploaded to Youtube in Greek design — with Greek melodic names and descriptions in this beautiful language.

We also translated the design of the booklet for the CD and created a colorful digital ArtBook — all this is included with the digital version of the album. Those interested can receive it.

I hope this work will continue, and the next parts of the “Music of the Celestial Spheres” series will also be republished in the language of Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZSKna7FUFM

Happy listening, Friends!

«Music of Celestial Spheres in the Moscow Planetarium» live album

You can’t just talk about concerts at the Optical Theatre, the Museum of Astronautics, the Museum of the History of the Earth, but not talk about concerts at the Moscow Planetarium. There were three of them — in 2012-2013. But only one was recorded qualitatively — the middle one.

Probably, there is no need now to talk about how exciting the light show was on the largest dome-screen in Europe (the dome of the Moscow Planetarium is really the largest in Europe). But I consider it necessary to note the uniqueness of the musical component of that concert — each composition sounded in a completely unexpected playing, and new versions were prepared for some melodies. This became possible thanks to the participation in the concert of my colleague — musician and composer — Igor Kolesnikov, and an absolutely inimitable vocalist — Olga Zemlyanika. And although Olga participated in only two numbers, this concert is worth listening to only for her participation.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv1aNTE2iQs

In 2013, the concert was released on CD, and now it has appeared on Youtube — you can listen (or you can watch — there is an indication of the DVD version in the description).