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Artemis II: The Moon, Music, and a 2,500 Year Old Secret

Digging The Greats | April 21, 2026



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All Artemis II Footage credit: NASA https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimedia/

Thanks to Enrico Lopez-Yañez for chatting with me. You can learn more at https://www.enricolopezyanez.com/

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TOPICS
Artemis II
The Moon
Space
Music
Pythagoras
Johannas Kepler
Music of the Spheres
Gustav Holst
The Planets
John Williams
Star Wars
Music Scoring
Mixtape
NASA

Written by Digging The Greats

Comments

This post currently has 41 comments.

  1. @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

  2. @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.

  3. @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

  4. @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.

  5. @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.

  6. @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

  7. @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.

  8. @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.

  9. @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.

  10. @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.

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