Pluto - Towards New Horizons | Ambient Soundscape | Modern Sounds Pluto Synthesizer
This is the final track of my series with the Modern Sounds Pluto semimodular synthesizer for my album Pluto's Moons.
The name "Towards New Horizons" is a reminiscence to the NASA spacecraft New Horizons, which was the first and so far only spacecraft researching about Pluto, the most distant planet (now "dwarf planet") of our solar system. But also "Towards New Horizons" means that I will go on in my exploration of synths and sounds beyond the Modern Sounds Pluto.
First ideas for researching about Pluto (the planet) emerged in 1989. This sparked the development of the NASA spacecraft called "New Horizons", which was launched on January 19th 2006. New Horizons and its seven research instruments were mainly developed by Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory under Alan Stern from Southwest Research Institute. Pluto flyby happened on July 14th 2015, delivering invaluable scientific data and photos of Pluto and its moons. New Horizon's extended mission explored the Kuiper Belt observed object named Arrokoth (former "2014 MU69" or "Ultima Thule"), flying by on January 1st 2019. New Horizon is still traveling through the Kuiper Belt, currently 9,25 billion km away from earth (as of February 2025).
My signal pathway here is the Modern Sounds Pluto going through the PastFx PX 101 and the new Old Blood Noise Endeavors BL-13 Octave into the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Dark Star v3 (mono in/stereo out), finally the Meris LVX and the Eventide Space, also in stereo. The BL-13 plays a pretty prominent role in this setup.
Single track stereo recording, no overdubbing.
All audio and video material and mastering by The Pedalboard Orchestra,
except background photo of Pluto and New Horizons spacecraft courtesy by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.
(Disclaimer: This is a non sponsored video. I bought all my equipment with my own money)
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