Artemis II: The Moon, Music, and a 2,500 Year Old Secret
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TOPICS
Artemis II
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Pythagoras
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@AIMadeThisMusic
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Wow, last two videos about space music and AI, two things I'm interested in! Quality videos too.
I started making AI music, mainly for me, but I knew there was the chance I'd want to share them later. For that reason, I choose my "band name" (AIMadeThisMusic) so there it would be clear – this is AI music. I don't want to try to fool people into thinking this was from real bands and I think platforms should allow you to click a box to toggle on/off if you want AI music included in your music suggestions.
With that said, if yo do enjoy The Universe and Physics, here are some sample songs. Available on all the major platforms.
Make Me Real – About the Higgs Boson
Matriarch – about the Strong Nuclear Force
Say My Name – about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
Thinking Of My Grandchild – about our sun's ancestors
A Pound Of Flesh – about Hawking Radiation
Where You've Been – about a comet coming close to earth
@michaellanyon1232
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
On '4:33', negative space (silence) is as fundamentally significant a musical element as positive space (sound)
@TheErikBleich
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Just weeping over here.
@artisans8521
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
4:33 that is a blip of time. John Cage also composed a piece of music that is played in Halberstad Germany. When a new note is played every few years, it hits the news. It will be finished in 639 years, since they started. It takes a bit of dedication to take it all in.
@HLRJaysteeMoore416
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Good morning Bang Bang happy TBT ✌️🇨🇦🫡✔️💯💯💯
@soulchorea
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
My man out here tryna get a SECOND Webby with this one! Also 5:59 — I never knew orchestral performances had announcers like a sports broadcast 😂
@PiousPatriot
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
So is this what Zero-%-Sound-Pollution sounds like. Sounds like my small town harbor in the dead of the night.
i hate the sound of the sun. its in waves that make it harder for me to focus then lets say pitch black.
Just voted for you guys and your in 3rd place so far. i wish you the best of luck brother.
i'v been loving your videos for years and they have made a huge impact on how i think about music. peace and love from iceland
@alanaraujo3037
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
This channel is something special ❤
@CitrasFlava
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Thanks youtube, again you did not notify me about this video, but hey look trump did something again, make sure you know what trump did cause this video is not what you want to watch. Oh by the way did you hate somebody today? no. well let me show you this, bet you hate someone now. Youtube is actively not showing good content in the name of hate. I literally have to make a point to look for your videos in my subscription feed. The bell works roughly 3 to days late. No point in subscribing to anything anymore since they dont show what you subscibed to anyway. Don lemon biggotry vs modern music documentary for a webby?😂😂😂youtube leadership is sailing into hell.
@orhunolgun5039
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
I just knew you wouldnt bash john cage like that. Props man great video
@MCMedina
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
They call this Om in Sanskrit I believe
@brianlivingston886
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Bravo
@YourMoogie
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
🎶 Two little men in a flying saucer flew down to Earth one day
Listened to a radio, saw a television show and said let's fly away 🎶
Ella Fitzgerald
@GekoPish
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
I recorded a trackonce that was accompanied by the vibrations from Saturn that was converted into real sound waves from the data. Its on YouTuve somewhere and called Saturn Blues.
@maxwellsabwa8169
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Brilliant. You do not know how many fans you have around the world even from rural areas like mine in Africa, and this video shows why we never miss even one. Much love…. DJ Max, from Vihiga, Kenya.
Ps: voted for you hope you get the webby
@richy_brawn
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
So great to diggin with you, in space, what a masterpiece!
@PierreTraynor
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Amazing video man I love the ending!
@Museindia-c8c
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Voted for u sir! 😉
@tynatureboy
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Tycho Brahe invented the Mixtape……..
@srgantong
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Perfect ending Sir. You got my vote.
@lbrtscutz1050
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
I think we should put a big ass speaker in space…..a rocket 🚀 size speaker
@vega11111
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
I'm interested in the extraterrestrial music I know they got the jazz
@JumboDubby
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Lee “Scratch” Perry and Dub are sorely missed in this video. Neuromancer by William Gibson is all about space travel and Dub music. And what about Sun Ra!? Sheesh.
@wallyfrogmore
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
im such a dorkabfut space and music & I love that you did this. I did wonder how far into the video until Holst got brought up
@yinkamode7058
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Track at 7:19/7:20, please?
What a viiiiiibe!
@1coin1play
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Beautiful content as ever. Voted for you at the Webby Awards. I’d vote for you to do the next NASA broadcast if there was an option.
@everchanger23
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
5:30 that's the most pretentious thing I've ever heard of.
@jimcappelletti9788
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Fantastic!
@30RobX
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Great video but that last track you played needed more bass … a moment like that just needs more oumph y’know
@maddietourmaline46
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Absolutely incredible. The images I've seen half a dozen times now didn't really hit until I saw them in your edit, and they really hit.
@Roses_R_redeR
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
🔥👊🥀🌹🥀🌕🚀🌕🌹🥀🌹🤙🔥
@mattwhat
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Seriously bro. You are making art. I was so with you when you slated 4.33, but when you made the soundtrack of Artemis… whoa!! This stuff needs to be in the Tate Modern or MOMA.
@vco7531
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
6:15 im sorry you don’t understand it budd
@stewart2449
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Holst nailed it with Neptune. Most of the other movements are great (Saturn and Venus unfairly eclipsed by Mars and Jupiter) but Neptune is perfect.
That said, 2001 used Ligety beautifully.
@GRASHALMrealm
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Couple sentenses in and i know this is a classic
@stewart2449
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
DtG meets space? Outstanding!
@robnerdo
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
John cage should have stuck to mortal kombat 😂
@jackhuang920
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
❤
@chloemchll3774
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
So about 4’33…
I don’t think it is fair to call that piece music, but I do think it is philosophy of music, because it forces us to think about what makes something music, so I appreciate it for what it is in that respect.
I also think there’s a nice connection between music and physics to be made around the piece, specifically explaining why Cage probably chose 4’33 specifically as the total length. 4’33 is 273 seconds. -273 degrees celsius is the temperature of absolute zero (0 degrees Kelvin). The length of the piece makes it clear that this is the complete absence of music in the same way that absolute zero is the absence of all heat. Absence of music is not music, any more than a blank wall where there should be a painting but there isn’t one is art.
@K12127
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
6:20 neeed a well timed fart lol
@dmug
April 21, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Digging in the pale blue dot.