Synopsis Inside the empty ship, the rescue team finds recordings made by the captain. In the first record, with great fear in his voice, he explains that they encountered something. It is not a creature, it doesn't have a form, but the entire crew can feel its presence. The Presence communicated without sound. It showed them memories: the birth of stars, the growth of galaxies, the quiet death of worlds. Then it offered them a choice. Stay, and learn what lies beyond physical form. Return, and forget everything. Did the crew transcend? Die? Or simply move beyond human understanding? The final shot: a quiet, faint pulse that sounds like a human heartbeat, while the monitor starts blinking. A single word appears: home_
The plot Lunaris is a space project, a "motion picture" made of music and sounds, with the images to be created only in the listener's mind.
The first mission I launched 11 years ago, with the sequel that followed 4 years after. Over the years, I collected almost a hundred tracks, sounds, audio recordings and... waited. I never wanted to rush things. Every piece of the puzzle had to fit into place, not only in terms of music, but also entire storyboard.
Third mission starts slowly, with echoes and various original NASA recordings taken across the universe, along with my experimental track The Fear of a Presence mixed together with Polaris, and followed by the beautiful calm piece made by Lopezhouse.
After that point, things are getting more dramatic and leading to the climax and finale. The lyrics in the track Alabora by Beyhude are written by astronomer Carl Sagan, as part of his 1994 book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. He studied planets and explored theories of extraterrestrial intelligence. He was named director of Cornell’s Laboratory for Planetary Studies in 1968 and worked with NASA on several projects. "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again at that dot. That's here. That's home."
Somewhere in the middle of the mix, it is starting to be very complicated, as for about 30 minutes I've been mixing 3 and 4 tracks at the same time, with the idea of presenting the complexity and progress of the storyboard. The final seconds of the mix are audio expressions of the text written in synopsis, with the idea of leaving the listener with its thoughts and mind images created.
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.” Carl Sagan, Astronomer
Lunaris trilogy connection and trivia If you read the storyboard for Home, the final part of the trilogy, take some time to return to the first and second part. The entire story is illustrated not only in sounds and music, but also with track titles, sometimes intentionally and sometimes by a coincidence of strange circumstances.
The craziest of all is that there are hidden meanings and hints in the track titles I used 12-13 years before writing the final story. This practically means that the solution was right there in front of the reader's eyes the whole time, but without context to connect the lines of the storyboard. In the first mission, Moon Return, there are tracks like: - Blip (the sound that InSight captured, used here as an intro), - Teleport (transcending), - See the Fear (in terms the crew had no idea what was happening and the reason for sending "cry for help" mentioned in Mission 2: Lost), - Deus ex Machina (a Latin phrase meaning "God from the machine", referring to a seemingly insurmountable problem that is suddenly resolved by the unexpected intervention of a powerful or divine force), - Presence (long before the appearance in the Mission 3: Home and the explanation of this term, it appeared as a dark progressive house track in the last part of the Moon Return mix; by knowing this, it can be determined that The Presence was there all the time).
The connections on the previous missions were explained and mentioned before: in Mission 2: Lost, every single track is there for a reason, even with the order of play and story build up. The track authors produced, made it even better with the titles (Reality Theory > Planetarium > The Search > Higgs Boson > Insane > Unsettled > And Beyond, etc), with the finale presented in No Man on Moon and Stage One (Abandoned in a Deep Space).
The track titles that completely blend into the story are also found in the last mission, Home: The Fear of a Presence (my track I created to illustrate the story with music), Moon, Landing, Space Escort, Lunar, Between the Stars, Luna, The Edge of Space, Good Voyage.
Explanation of terms and sound recordings Below is the explanation of the original sound recordings used in this album, along with brief clarification of terms related to space missions and projects.
InSight NASA's InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) was a stationary robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of Mars. Unlike previous missions that focused on the surface, InSight acted as a "geophysical observatory" to understand the planet’s "vital signs", its pulse, temperature, and reflexes. Launched in May 2018 and officially retired in December 2022 after four years on the surface. (https://www.nature.com)
In 2021, NASA’s InSight lander made history by capturing the first-ever acoustic and seismic recordings of a meteoroid impact on Mars. Using its highly sensitive seismometer (SEIS), the lander detected the vibration of the ground, while its pressure sensors picked up the sound waves traveling through the thin Martian atmosphere. The impact created a distinctive "blip" sound. This is due to a peculiar atmospheric effect where bass (low-frequency) sounds travel faster than treble (high-frequency) sounds on Mars, causing them to reach the lander at different times. (https://science.nasa.gov)
Perseverance Perseverance is NASA's most advanced Mars rover, currently exploring Jezero Crater to search for signs of ancient microbial life (fun fact: it is named after the municipality of Jezero in Bosnia and Herzegovina; in most Slavic languages Jezero means Lake). Powered by nuclear battery, Perseverance is collecting soil and rock samples as it travels, and storing them in tubes that future missions by NASA and the European Space Agency will collect. (https://www.planetary.org)
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another world on the 19th of April 2021, rising 3 meters and hovering. Originally planned for 5 flights, the 1,8 kg drone completed 72 flights over 3 years, serving as an aerial scout and enduring until a hard landing in early 2024. (https://science.nasa.gov)
THEMIS The THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) mission is a long-running NASA project originally launched in February 2007. It was designed to solve a decades-old mystery: what triggers the explosive releases of energy in Earth’s magnetic field that cause the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) to brighten. (https://cnes.fr/en/projects/themis)
It began as a fleet of five identical satellites. Their unique "pearls on a string" orbit allowed them to line up every four days over North America to track how energy from the solar wind moves through the Earth’s magnetosphere. After the primary two-year mission, the constellation was split into two parts in 2010 to maximize its scientific value: THEMIS-Low: Three satellites remained in near-Earth orbit to continue studying the magnetosphere and space weather. ARTEMIS: The two outermost satellites were moved to the Moon. This mission (Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction with the Sun) studies the lunar environment and how the Moon interacts with the solar wind. (https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/iwf/research/space-missions/current-missions/themis)
HARP NASA’s HARP (Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas) project converts raw data from the THEMIS mission into audible "sounds" of Earth's magnetosphere. These recordings capture, as eerie whistles and chirps, the vibrations of magnetic field lines interacting with solar wind, simulating a "magnetic harp". (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Details Genre: Ambient / Experimental / Tech house / Progressive house Date: March 2026 Length: 75:02 min Quality: 320 kbps Cue: no Archive size: 171 MB
Tracklist 01. Echoes from the Far Side (Intro) InSight Captures Sound of a Meteoroid Striking Mars Original NASA Recording
02. Andrey - The Fear of a Presence First Audio Recording of Sounds on Mars InSight Records the Sound of a Martian Impact Original NASA Recordings
03. Solarsoul & EchoES - Polaris (Original Mix) Perseverance Records a Martian Dust Devil Black Hole 'Sound' in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Flight Original NASA Recordings
04. Lopezhouse - Echoes From Mars (Original Mix) Earth’s Magnetic Harp Original NASA Recording
