Philip Sheppard

Tag: space

  • Human Universe Soundtrack

    Human Universe Soundtrack

    [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/53995543″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]Here’s a preview of my score for Human Universe featuring Professor Brian Cox, which debuts tonight on BBC2.

    We’re going to release the soundtrack on iTunes, Spotify and many other digital music platforms shortly.

    If you’d like to receive a one-off email when this is released, just leave us a short message below naming your favourite track.

    You’ll get a free download of one of my other film scores by way of thanks.

    And, you’ll really be helping us, as the most popular track will become the first track on the album.

  • Petra Theorum

    Petra Theorum

    Here’s a new track from my score for Brian Cox’s new series ‘The Human Universe'[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/163874307″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]

  • Voyager’s message in a bottle

    [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/169148725″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]The Voyager Golden Discs are gramophone records which were attached to both Voyager spacecrafts, which were launched in 1977.

    The discs contain a huge array of music and noises from Earth, as well as biometric information and scientific knowledge.

    Inscribed on the discs are the words; ‘To the makers of music – all worlds, all times…’
    Everything in my track is built from manipulated sounds from the gold discs attached to the Voyager space probes.
    Hope you like it.

  • Across the Milky way

    milky way

    Here’s a track I wrote formerly for a programme called ‘Inside the Milky Way’. I’m gradually reworking the soundtrack for this series into fully developed pieces and releasing them on Bandcamp. Click here for more!

    The image above is taken from a photo I took of a bowl my dear friend Josh Simpson made for me. He’s a total genius, and by coincidence has a strong space connection as his wife is Cmdr Cady Coleman, the astronaut!

  • Cloud Songs for Yuri’s night

    Cloud Songs is now out at an iTunes store near you!

    Yuri’s night on Tuesday (the anniversary of Gagarin’s orbit around the earth) is being marked by an extraordinary film – First Orbit – made by Chris Riley and Paulo Nespoli on the International Space Station. This is the soundtrack.[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/13400937″]

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    best wishes
    Philip Sheppard (aka филипп шепард!)

  • First Orbit – Yuri’s Night

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC2Ea0So2CY]April 12th This year sees an extraordinary anniversary. Fifty years ago to the day Yuri Gagarin became the first person to see the Earth from space. To mark this extraordinary anniversary, I’m proud to be involved in a project devised by my friend Christopher Riley.

    In a unique collaboration with the European Space Agency, and the Expedition 26/27 crew of the International Space Station, we have created a new film of what Gagarin first witnessed fifty years ago.

    By matching the orbital path of the Space Station, as closely as possible, to that of Gagarin’s Vostok 1 spaceship and filming the same vistas of the Earth through the new giant cupola window, astronaut Paolo Nespoli, and documentary film maker Christopher Riley, have captured a new digital high definition view of the Earth below, half a century after Gagarin first witnessed it.

    We have partnered with YouTube to share First Orbit with the World in a special global streaming event on the 12th April. The Yuri’s Night network will also be showing the film at over 120 parties around the world that day. If you would like to watch it at one of these events then please contact the organizers directly through the Yuri’s Night clickable party map.

    The music in the film is all composed by me and comes from my album Cloud Songs.

    “We’d been working with some of these tracks on another project” says Chris, “and we suddenly realised how perfectly they could compliment ‘First Orbit’ as well. We contacted Philip to ask his permission to use them, only to find that his entire Cloud Song album was already in orbit onboard the International Space Station!”

    NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, had them on her iPod… Her husband, Josh Simpson is a friend of mine and they’d listened to a lot of my music together before she left, so I made up a playlist for her. Quite by coincidence Cady had been listening to the music in ‘First Orbit’ at one end of the Space Station whilst European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli was shooting for the film at the other end, without either of them knowing the connection!

    If you want to see the film, it’s going to be a completely free download.

    Buy the album here!

  • Christmas music in space!

    Here are a couple of Christmas tracks to download by way of thanks for all the great support this year!

    Here’s a track called ‘Look Up’ (download using the down button on the right):
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    This is all about the happiness of flying down a mountain when your heart is full to bursting… Cady Coleman the wonderful astronaut is taking this track up into orbit on the International Space Station this week.

    Think of her as she makes her incredible commute on the Soyuz rocket.

    I’ve had a great month writing music in Oman as I worked on the sound design of the 40th anniversary celebrations, and have just completed my first album with Evelyn Glennie the percussion virtuoso. There’s a huge project next year which is very very hush hush but it involves being locked in a studio for two weeks conducting a symphony orchestra… more soon!

    If you’re going to the Sundance Film Festival – here are two films I’ve got showing there:
    http://sundance.bside.com/2011/films/bobbyfischeragainsttheworld_sundance2011
    http://sundance.bside.com/2011/films/theflaw_sundance2011
    And if you follow the Oscars, the Tillman Story has been shortlisted for the best Documentary!
    http://indiegeniusprod.com/BestMoviesEver/tillman-story-trailer/

    And… Here’s a carol I wrote called ‘the Orange Tree’… please download if you like.
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    Stumble It!

    The robin laughed in the orange-tree:
    “Ho, windy North, a fig for thee:
    While breasts are red and wings are bold
    And green trees wave us globes of gold,
    Time’s scythe shall reap but bliss for me
    Sunlight, song, and the orange-tree.

    Have a peaceful, wonderful Christmas and stay in touch!