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Very Noise by Igorrr from the album Spirituality and Distortion - Video by Meat Dept.

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IGORRR - DOWNGRADE DESERT

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Greco Bastián - With a little hell from my friends - in which he recruits an astounding cast of musicians to play his intricate prog-math-zeuhl-r.i.o. compositions

I'm just a man lost in music. I cannot play any instrument, but I know how it must to be played, so I compose some tunes and some dear friends help me in order to make it sounds as it has to be... Without them I'm nothing.

For years I´ve heard "it sounds good, but you should make real musicians play it" so I decided to invite some of my idols to join in. This is the miracolous result, just give a look to the line up and listen something... IT MUST BE IN YOUR COLLECTION!! - TATSUYA YOSHIDA, Japan (KOENJIHYAKKEI, RUINS, KOREKYOJINN, etc.) – Drums - JEAN-LUC PLOUVIER, Belgium (UNIVERS ZERO, MAXIMALIST!, DANIEL SCHELL & KARO, etc.) – Piano - RYOKO ONO, Japan (SAX RUINS, PLASTIC DOGS, RYORCHESTRA, etc.) – Sax - PIERRE VERVLOESEM "Belgium's Frank Zappa", Belgium (X-LEGGED SALLY, FLAT EARTH SOCIETY, KINGS OF BELGIUM, etc.) – Electric Guitars - MATT LEBOFSKY, USA (MIRTHKON, SECRET CHIEFS 3, MOETAR, etc.) – Bass Guitars - PATRICK SHIROISHI, Japan (CORIMA, UPSILON ACRUX, SSWAN, etc.) - Sax - EMMETT ELVIN, UK (GUAPO, KNIFEWORLD, CHROME HOOF, etc.) – Electric & Bass Guitars - VINCENT SICOT-VANTALON, France (SCHERZOO, UNIT WAIL, ZERO ZERO ZERO, etc.) – Piano & Keyboard Effects - JON BAFUS, USA (GENTLEMAN SURFER, AFTERNOON BROTHER, INVASIVE SPECIES, etc.) – Drums - SAMO ŠALAMON, Slovenia (TRIO, QUARTET, SEXTET, etc.) – Electric Guitars - JOSÉ LUIS VELASCO, México – Electric & Bass Guitars - HEY FIGUEROA, México (MUSHASHO) – Bass Guitars - ARMANDO LAGARDA, México (MUSHASHO) – Drums - EDSON SANTANA REYNA, México – Acoustic & Charango Guitars - GERARDO RAMLOP, México - Xylophone - GRECO BASTIÁN, México – Composition, VST´s Effects

[theheadbangers]

Igorrr launches video for “Downgrade Desert”

Igorrr released their new full-length, Spirituality And Distortion, via Metal Blade Records. For a preview of the record, a video for the album track, “Downgrade Desert” (produced by Fabian Lüscher & Dynamic Frame GmbH), can be viewed at: Igorrr‘s Gautier Serre comments: “I’m happy and proud to finally be able to share with you that piece of music which is ‘Spirituality and Distortion‘, that has been in the making for a way more time than you may think. I hope you’ll receive this album as the soundtrack of the apocalypse, as it seems to be it. We shared 3 tracks of the album already; first one was ‘Very Noise’, then ‘Parpaing’, and two weeks ago, we shared ‘Camel Dancefloor’. Please, keep in mind that those were only parts of a whole piece, and I created this album having in mind the whole piece of music. If you want to have a real opinion on the album, please listen to the whole album – it was built to be listened this way.” Stream and purchase Spirituality And Distortion now at: metalblade.com/igorrr – where the album is available in the following formats:

- digipak-CD - box set (digipak CD, pink vinyl, cassette, 48-page artbook, puzzle, pendant – EU exclusive – limited to 1000 copies) - “Magma” – red / black marbled vinyl (US exclusive – limited to 1100 copies) - “Smoke” – clear w/ black smoke vinyl (US exclusive – limited to 300 copies) - “Ink and Paint” – black w/ white edge marbled vinyl (US exclusive – limited to 300 copies) - “Tiger’s Eye” – amber marbled vinyl (Bandcamp exclusive – limited to 300 copies) - 180g black vinyl (EU exclusive) - brown / black marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 500 copies) - grey / black marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 400 copies) - picture disc vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 300 copies) - red / black marbled vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 200 copies) - grey / white swirl vinyl (EU shop exclusive – limited to 100 copies) - black / white split vinyl (EU shop exclusive – limited to 100 copies) - liquid vinyl (EU shop exclusive – limited to 50 copies) * exclusive bundles with shirts, plus digital options are also available! With 2017′s Savage Sinusoid, Igorrr more than proved to be a truly unique musical force – and 2020′s Spirituality And Distortion cements that well-earned reputation. Slamming together disparate musical styles ranging from death and black metal to breakcore, Balkan, baroque and classical music in a manner that is as unconventional and unpredictable as it is thrilling, Igorrr are unlike any other act, and Spirituality And Distortion displays just as broad a range of emotions as sounds. “Getting stuck in only one emotion is very boring to me; life is a wide range of emotions – sometimes you’re happy, sometimes you’re sad, angry, pissed off, nostalgic or blown away,” states mastermind Gautier Serre. “Life is not only one color. These 14 tracks are a journey through different states of mind I’ve been through.” At no stage was there any plan, embracing the freedom offered in the wake of achieving Savage Sinusoid and going wherever ideas took him, embracing a small army of specialist musicians to help him attain his vision. Importantly, like its predecessor, this is not a predominantly electronic record. “The organization part has been more complicated as we had to fly traditional instrumentalists to our studio, so, lots of planes, trains and cars were involved to make it happen, but all the acoustic instruments have been recorded traditionally, with no help of the computer.” These included violinist Timba Harris, bassist Mike Leon, pianist Matt Lebofsky, Oud player Mehdi Haddab, accordion player Pierre Mussi, Kanoun player Fotini Kokkala and harpsichordist Benjamin Bardiaux, among others. Vocally, the most prominent performer is Laure Le Prunenec, whose operatic strains are a longtime part of the Igorrr mix, while regular collaborator Laurent Lunoir also appears on a few tracks. Serre also invited Pierre Lacasa and Jasmine Barra back to the studio (known from their appearance on previous tracks like “Vegetable Soup” and “Cheval”) to appear on “Kung-Fu Chèvre” and got to realize a dream with one guest performer. “We had the honor to welcome my personal favorite musical hero on this album: George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher of Cannibal Corpse. He screams on the track ‘Parpaing’, and his legendary voice brings the heaviness this track deserved. George is like the final boss of death metal. Like on a video game you have the final boss who is the strongest, George is the best in death metal singing. Due to the extreme heaviness and violence of his voice, I found it very much coherent to contrast it with a cheap tune of 8bit music which is the least heavy music on earth. The contrast is beautiful to my ears.” However, lyrics are less important when he is creating, and often these are delivered in languages he does not even speak. “As with the previous albums, I’m entirely focused on the sound itself and how the sonorities of the voice speaks to the heart, not the intellectual meaning of the words.” Spirituality And Distortion track-listing 1. Downgrade Desert 2. Nervous Waltz 3. Very Noise 4. Hollow Tree 5. Camel Dancefloor 6. Parpaing 7. Musette Maximum 8. Himalaya Massive Ritual 9. Lost in Introspection 10. Overweight Poesy 11. Paranoid Bulldozer Italiano 12. Barocco Satani 13. Polyphonic Rust 14. Kung-Fu Chèvre Igorrr tour dates June 6 – Jarny, France – Plein Air de Rock Festival July 10 – Neskaupstadur, Iceland – Eistnaflug Fesitval Aug. 13 – Dinkelsbuehl, Germany – Summer Breeze Aug. 15 – St Nolf, France – Motocultor Festival Aug. 20 – Alba Iliua, Romania – Dark Bombastic Nov. 26 – Moscow, Russia – Aglomerat Nov. 27 – St. Petersburg, Russia – MOD Club Igorrr online: http://igorrr.com https://www.facebook.com/IgorrrBarrroque https://twitter.com/igorrrbarrroque https://www.instagram.com/igorrr_music https://soundcloud.com/igorrr Buy iTunes Artist Page Artist News Source Read the full article

[sciencespies]

Breakthrough Listen releases 2 petabytes of data from SETI survey of Milky Way

https://sciencespies.com/space/breakthrough-listen-releases-2-petabytes-of-data-from-seti-survey-of-milky-way/

Breakthrough Listen releases 2 petabytes of data from SETI survey of Milky Way

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The Breakthrough Listen Initiative today released data from the most comprehensive survey yet of radio emissions from the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy and the region around its central black hole, and it is inviting the public to search the data for signals from intelligent civilizations.

At a media briefing today in Seattle as part of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Breakthrough Listen principal investigator Andrew Siemion of the University of California, Berkeley, announced the release of nearly 2 petabytes of data, the second data dump from the four-year old search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). A petabyte of radio and optical telescope data was released last June, the largest release of SETI data in the history of the field.

The data, most of it fresh from the telescope prior to detailed study from astronomers, comes from a survey of the radio spectrum between 1 and 12 gigahertz (GHz). About half of the data comes via the Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia, which, because of its location in the Southern Hemisphere, is perfectly situated and instrumented to scan the entire galactic disk and galactic center. The telescope is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility, owned and managed by the country’s national science agency, CSIRO.

The remainder of the data was recorded by the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, the world’s largest steerable radio dish, and an optical telescope called the Automated Planet Finder, built and operated by UC Berkeley and located at Lick Observatory outside San Jose, California.

“Since Breakthrough Listen’s initial data release last year, we have doubled what is available to the public,” said Breakthrough Listen’s lead system administrator, Matt Lebofsky. “It is our hope that these data sets will reveal something new and interesting, be it other intelligent life in the universe or an as-yet-undiscovered natural astronomical phenomenon.”

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the privately-funded SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, also announced today an agreement to collaborate on new systems to add SETI capabilities to radio telescopes operated by NRAO. The first project will develop a system to piggyback on the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico and provide data to state-of-the-art digital backend equipment built by the SETI Institute.

“The SETI Institute will develop and install an interface on the VLA, permitting unprecedented access to the rich data stream continuously produced by the telescope as it scans the sky,” said Siemion, who, in addition to his UC Berkeley position, is the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute. “This interface will allow us to conduct a powerful, wide-area SETI survey that will be vastly more complete than any previous such search.”

“As the VLA conducts its usual scientific observations, this new system will allow for an additional and important use for the data we’re already collecting,” said NRAO Director Tony Beasley. “Determining whether we are alone in the universe as technologically capable life is among the most compelling questions in science, and NRAO telescopes can play a major role in answering it.”

“For the whole of human history, we had a limited amount of data to search for life beyond Earth. So, all we could do was speculate. Now, as we are getting a lot of data, we can do real science and, with making this data available to general public, so can anyone who wants to know the answer to this deep question,” said Yuri Milner, the founder of Breakthrough Listen.

Earth transit zone survey

In releasing the new radio and optical data, Siemion highlighted a new analysis of a small subset of the data: radio emissions from 20 nearby stars that are aligned with the plane of Earth’s orbit such that an advanced civilization around those stars could see Earth pass in front of the sun (a “transit” like those focused on by NASA’s Kepler space telescope). Conducted by the Green Bank Telescope, the Earth transit zone survey observed in the radio frequency range between 4 and 8 gigahertz, the so-called C-band. The data were then analyzed by former UC Berkeley undergraduate Sofia Sheikh, now a graduate student at Pennsylvania State University, who looked for bright emissions at a single radio wavelength or a narrow band around a single wavelength. She has submitted the paper to the Astrophysical Journal.

“This is a unique geometry,” Sheikh said. “It is how we discovered other exoplanets, so it kind of makes sense to extrapolate and say that that might be how other intelligent species find planets, as well. This region has been talked about before, but there has never been a targeted search of that region of the sky.”

While Sheikh and her team found no technosignatures of civilization, the analysis and other detailed studies the Breakthrough Listen group has conducted are gradually putting limits on the location and capabilities of advanced civilizations that may exist in our galaxy.

“We didn’t find any aliens, but we are setting very rigorous limits on the presence of a technologically capable species, with data for the first time in the part of the radio spectrum between 4 and 8 gigahertz,” Siemion said. “These results put another rung on the ladder for the next person who comes along and wants to improve on the experiment.”

Sheikh noted that her mentor, Jason Wright at Penn State, estimated that if the world’s oceans represented every place and wavelength we could search for intelligent signals, we have, to date, explored only a hot tub’s worth of it.

“My search was sensitive enough to see a transmitter basically the same as the strongest transmitters we have on Earth, because I looked at nearby targets on purpose,” Sheikh said. “So, we know that there isn’t anything as strong as our Arecibo telescope beaming something at us. Even though this is a very small project, we are starting to get at new frequencies and new areas of the sky.”

Beacons in the galactic center?

The so-far unanalyzed observations from the galactic disk and galactic center survey were a priority for Breakthrough Listen because of the higher likelihood of observing an artificial signal from that region of dense stars. If artificial transmitters are not common in the galaxy, then searching for a strong transmitter among the billions of stars in the disk of our galaxy is the best strategy, Simeon said.

On the other hand, putting a powerful, intergalactic transmitter in the core of our galaxy, perhaps powered by the 4 million-solar-mass black hole there, might not be beyond the capabilities of a very advanced civilization. Galactic centers may be so-called Schelling points: likely places for civilizations to meet up or place beacons, given that they cannot communicate among themselves to agree on a location.

“The galactic center is the subject of a very specific and concerted campaign with all of our facilities because we are in unanimous agreement that that region is the most interesting part of the Milky Way galaxy,” Siemion said. “If an advanced civilization anywhere in the Milky Way wanted to put a beacon somewhere, getting back to the Schelling point idea, the galactic center would be a good place to do it. It is extraordinarily energetic, so one could imagine that if an advanced civilization wanted to harness a lot of energy, they might somehow use the supermassive black hole that is at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.”

Visit from an interstellar comet

Breakthrough Listen also released observations of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, which had a close encounter with the sun in December and is now on its way out of the solar system. The group had earlier scanned the interstellar rock ‘Oumuamua, which passed through the center of our solar system in 2017. Neither exhibited technosignatures.

“If interstellar travel is possible, which we don’t know, and if other civilizations are out there, which we don’t know, and if they are motivated to build an interstellar probe, then some fraction greater than zero of the objects that are out there are artificial interstellar devices,” said Steve Croft, a research astronomer with the Berkeley SETI Research Center and Breakthrough Listen. “Just as we do with our measurements of transmitters on extrasolar planets, we want to put a limit on what that number is.”

Regardless of the kind of SETI search, Siemion said, Breakthrough Listen looks for electromagnetic radiation that is consistent with a signal that we know technology produces, or some anticipated signal that technology could produce, and inconsistent with the background noise from natural astrophysical events. This also requires eliminating signals from cellphones, satellites, GPS, internet, Wi-fi and myriad other human sources.

In Sheikh’s case, she turned the Green Bank telescope on each star for five minutes, pointed away for another five minutes and repeated that twice more. She then threw out any signal that didn’t disappear when the telescope pointed away from the star. Ultimately, she whittled an initial 1 million radio spikes down to a couple hundred, which she was able to eliminate as Earth-based human interference. The last four unexplained signals turned out to be from passing satellites.

Siemion emphasized that the Breakthrough Listen team intends to analyze all the data released to date and to do it systematically and often.

“Of all the observations we have done, probably 20% or 30% have been included in a data analysis paper,” Siemion said. “Our goal is not just to analyze it 100%, but 1000% or 2000%. We want to analyze it iteratively.”

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Astronomers Looked For Alien Civilization In Our Closest 1,300 Stars. Here’s What They Found

The truth is out there, they say, but we haven’t come close to finding it yet.

The Breakthrough Listen project has searched the closest 1,327 stars in our galaxy for hints of intelligent life and advanced civilizations. So far, it sounds mighty quiet out there. The project is yet to come across any signals that suggest our cosmic neighborhood is home to any advanced civilization other than our own. Still, the team is not losing hope.

“We scoured thousands of hours of observations of nearby stars, across billions of frequency channels. We found no evidence of artificial signals from beyond Earth, but this doesn’t mean there isn’t intelligent life out there: we may just not have looked in the right place yet, or peered deep enough to detect faint signals,” Dr Danny C Price, a radio astronomer who leads the Breakthrough Listen project, said in a statement.

The extensive data was gathered using two of the world’s most powerful ground telescopes, the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia. They sifted through billions of radio channels, searching for unusual signs – or so-called “technosignatures” – that might have been produced by technology built by civilizations beyond Earth. Unfortunately, as anticipated, they only detected the “noisy fuzz” of radio signals pumped out from our own human technology, such as smartphones, televisions, and the like.

The Robert C Byrd “Green Bank Telescope” (GBT) located at the Green Bank Observatory points skyward listening for signals from deep space. John M. Chase/Shutterstock

The ongoing project has recently published their data in two top astrophysics journals – available to read here on pre-print servers. While collecting information on the surrounding 160 light-years of Earth, the project has amassed an eye-watering 1 petabyte (or 1 million gigabytes) of data – the largest data set ever publically released in the history of searching for extraterrestrials.

“While we have been making smaller subsets of data public before in varying forms and contexts,” added Matt Lebofsky, Berkeley’s SETI Research Center’s lead system administrator, “we are excited and proud to offer this first cohesive collection along with an instruction manual, so everybody can dig in and help us search.”

Founded in 2015, the Breakthrough Listen project was funded by Yuri Milner, Russia’s answer to Peter Thiel, who founded the colossal Russian internet company “Mail.ru Group” and an investor in Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, Whatsapp, and numerous other big names in tech. Stayed tuned because there’s plenty more on its way.

Lebofsky added: “We’re just getting started – there’s much more to come!”

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