Description
Artist: Stephen Dubois
Title: From the Blue Planet to the Red Planet
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Format: CD, Album
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Country: US
Region: Buffalo, NY
UPC: 705020687223
Description:
This music is the soundtrack from a full-dome production created by the Travelers Science Dome Planetarium and the New Children's Museum in CT. It was a great opportunity and I was fortunate to be a part of the team. I was given a lot of creative control over the music, too. What I tried to represent, musically, was the experience of life on Mars. I wanted the music to sound cold, evoke loneliness, sonically create the turbulence of violent dust storms, whirling sequences to mimic the winds of dust devils, etc. Some tracks, such as Weightless Journey, attempted to let the listener experience the feeling of zero gravity. Challenges aside, I was pleased with the final result. The music on this album includes everything recorded for the score – including the tracks that were trimmed or cut from the final mix. There are also two bonus tracks not in the show at all, but inspired by it.
About the Artist:
Composer Stephen Dubois has been working in the planetarium field for the last 33 years. He has scored original music for 8 documentary programs: Mister Frost and the Skies of Winter, Eclipse: Into the Shadow, Our Invisible Universe, Constellations of the Zodiac, 2012: Prophecy of Doom, From the Blue Planet to the Red Planet, Unlocking the Solar System and Astin's Sky Adventure. His music has been heard in planetariums throughout the USA and North America including the Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium (Buffalo, NY), The Traveler's Science Dome Planetarium (Hartford, CT) and the Howard B. Owens Science Center (Greenbelt, MD.) Since childhood, music has been a huge part of Stephen's life. He started composing in 1979 using piano, organ and found objects. By the mid 1980's, he began to employ synthesizers, percussion and sampling. Influenced by countless genres of music he describes his sound as "space music with shades of contemporary classical." He has released five full length albums: "The Frost Sessions", "Our Invisible Universe", "2012: Prophecy of Doom" "From the Blue Planet to the Red Planet" and "Astin's Sky Adventure" along with one holiday single: "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen." In 2015 he wrote a score for the short subject documentary film, "Cherokee," for Rick Inglasbe Studio as well as scoring that studio's 2016 documentary film, "Miracle on Panther Mountain." In early 2020, Stephen released his 6th album: "Beyond the Dome" a collection of material not from any planetarium or full-dome programs but rather completely new set of pieces unlike his previous albums. Whereas much of the soundtrack work can be called 'background music' the tracks on "Beyond the Dome" are 'foreground' music.
