Published On Nov 15, 2021
In this Episode Manuela Baroni, Head of the JUICE Project Control Section, presents the idea and the results of the JUICE Up your Rocket competition. The competition invited children from all over the world up to the age of 12 to create a work of art related to the JUICE mission. The art work of the winner is will be placed on the nose of the rocket, called the faring, that will launch JUICE into space!
Thirteen additional works will be part of the JUICE calendar (12 months and and additional artwork of special mention). Please read the press release for all details at https://www.esa.int/kids/en/news/Chil... (English version).
Other language versions can be found at:
DE: https://www.esa.int/kids/de/Neues/Kin...
ES: https://www.esa.int/kids/es/Noticias/...
FR: https://www.esa.int/kids/fr/Actualite...
IT: https://www.esa.int/kids/it/notizie/I...
NL: https://www.esa.int/kids/nl/nieuws/De...
Concerning the music, the composer William Zeitler notes the following:
"Twelve months worth of kids calendar drawings, twelve notes in the chromatic scale -- a coincidence? Of course not! I used a tone row (one unique chromatic pitch for each kid's image) so they each get their own unique tonal center.
If one human voice is lovely, but a chorus of human voices is its own special sound, likewise one wineglass (wet finger around the rim) is lovely, but a chorus of wineglasses is really awesome...
Many years ago I built my own sample set of a 'wineglass chorus' -- recorded the glasses one at a time, one pitch at a time, and mixed them all together. A wine glass only has a range (tuning with water) of about a major 3rd, so quite a few glasses of various geometries were involved. I only did three glasses per pitch (all of which still took a couple days!), and my sample set has a range of an octave and a fifth. Nevertheless -- the effect -- especially with chords -- is really ethereal. I used it on the space animation and also the kids pictures (they being pictures of space)".
Produced for ESA by Lightcurve Films.
GoPro footage by ESA.
Original music by William Zeitler.
