9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
I can remember at a pretty early age
we went on some trip far away
you know into the mountains where there weren't many lights
and I went outside at night
and I looked up and I had never seen that many stars
I couldn't leave and I looked out
and was reaching and just fascinated
with what I saw and wondered how it worked
The reason Jupiter is so interesting is
that after the Sun formed Jupiter was
the first planet and so when we want to
go back and try to understand how the
planets were made and where the stuff
that made us come from
Jupiter represents that first step
In a larger sense it's really trying to
understand nature and we're part of nature
what is really going on
how do we understand nature
we have to look at it from an artistic perspective
we have to look at it from an analytical perspective
I think a lot of musical artists are doing a similar kind of
exploration whether it be for themselves
or for others
I remember looking out into the stars
when I was a child and trying to work out
a feeling it is this real mixture
sort of like a fear and joy I think
which I think is awe
I feel like a lot my song writing starts
from trying to describe certain emotion
or certain sensation or something I've seen
the way that you can look out into some
vast infinite space and how that can
make you think about you know your own
life and the life of your ancestors
or the life of people on Earth
of how long we've been here about what will be next
I'm curious about so many things
but i'm also curious about the unknowns
I've always been captivated by looking
at space just understand that I'm part of it
I definitely think about it
Making music is my own personal thing, it's like my diary
Innovation comes from the combination of
analytical and creative thought
Neither one can really make progress unless you've got both
Everybody's gotta mix these worlds
The Renaissance in Florence
Galileo was this great scientist
certainly changed our culture forever
he came from a music background
There's people like Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci
I mean you couldn't do Juno
you can't even think of the idea of going
into a mission unless you had both halves of that
I say so many of the best
musicians I know have both of those
things absolutely they can trip out
and be whimsical and romantic and lost
but they also are really technical
and nerdy and really clever and and organized
and you know music is repetition in
music is math there's so many patterns in music
and if you wanna explore the
theory of music you end up with pure math
anything can be put in equation form
it's just universal language and music
is everything to nature sings
it makes music on its own
if you go outside crickets are singing songs
and birds are chirping
it all boils down to music and sounds
fundamentally in nature harmony is everywhere it's just sort of
built into the natural laws
so if I pluck a guitar string that guitar string is
going back and forth vibrating
it's all tied to harmony and math called resonances
right so something that's harmonically
driven already sounds pleasant to us
something that's dis-harmonic makes you
kind of feel bad
we're in sync with that
music and art are sort of experiments to me
it's just literally ideas to be as creative as possible
to throw as many things against the
wall as we can try fail try fail try
succeed kind of and then you keep trying
until there's something that sounds good
you go back into the studio and you
really perfect it and I'm always trying
to find like that bar that little tidbit
that make someone think a little bit
say something away that hasn't been said before
if one little thing if one vocal
if anything isn't right i think it's
unfinished and it doesn't work
I might hear a piece of music and it
stimulates me to think of some other
thought and maybe it links to some
science exploration that I go do
or maybe it makes me think of something
I want to create musically or artistically
and one of the interesting things is
that Juno is going to arrive at Jupiter
but i want to know how the spacecraft doing
want to know how some sensors are doing
the whole spacecraft
is set up to send down tones during this
critical maneuver when we are going to orbit
what they really are is musical notes
that based on what musical note is sent
how something is doing is it working well
or is it not and it's kind of
interesting that it all comes down to
musical notes basically
You know I love the fact that we live in a universe that's vibrating
been really lucky to hear some of the sounds from Jupiter
that have been transferred into the part
of the spectrum that we can actually
hear and they are almost what you think
of as electronic it's really fascinating
of course they are you know just waves
the music that we make that we think of
is really contemporary is actually
ancient music what's happening is ancient music
the urge to make music which is prevalent
and you know in every single culture that's
ever been it's just an extension of
these waves and these kind of vibrations
we made by everything all the time
when we go to study art or we listen to music
or we study nature and go to the forest
or try to understand the ocean
it's all sort of enabling us to learn about
ourselves and understand others
we have all these different mechanisms
to try to reach out and understand
and that's so powerful
Juno represents what we can create
when you mix a lot of different people together
some more scientific some more artistic
some more creative some more analytical
and we can use that as an
example of how humanity can do even more
when you're traveling trying to make a
song you go through a bunch of unknowns
but there's like a destination in mind
what's something that could turn the world
upside down and switch it up a little bit
there's challenges every day but it's
all about beating fear it's just a choice
that you have to me and saying like I'm
scared of this and I don't want to be anymore
it's fulfilling curiosities
you're standing on the edge
it's just total unknown in front of you
oh my god you know what's out there
and the only way to know is to go take a risk
I can't help myself but to take that step
I'm just human
I think music and just exploring it
was a really great way of finding out what's inside
which is sometimes it is kind of scary
but it's important to listen to that quiet voice
and see what is to be said
I really am curious to know what's in there