(Program Notes from the May 1st, 2009 Project 21 Concert premiere.)
The Song: StarSolar is a piece of Electronica music inspired by a song I wrote during my years in high school of the same name. The current rendition takes quite a few liberties with the source material.
The Video: The accompanying video presentation is created in Celestia. (http://www.shatters.net/celestia) The planet featured at the climax of the song is 51 Pegasi b, a planet revolving around the sun-like star 51 Pegasi, and was the first planet discovered orbiting a star other than our own sun. This planet was discovered in 1995 and it, along with other later discovered extrasolar planets, have changed the theories of how planets form.
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