The Day the Earth Smiled
The Day the Earth Smiled
That time Cassini took a snapshot of Earth
Release dates
Bandcamp: August 9, 2013
Substack / LABELabel: July 18, 2023
Introduction
This is one of my really long, single track ambient albums. I really enjoy making and listening to durational works because I love the feeling of being immersed and lost in the sounds, and it’s just not the same with a 3-minute pop song.
The music
This is Nodebeat running really slow and triggering sounds from Cassini and Alchemy. It’s meant to evoke the loneliness of space, and I think it achieves that.
Artwork
The album title and artwork were inspired by the famous photo taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft as it passed Saturn. Read more about it on NASA.gov.
Liner Notes
This minimal space ambient composition was composed and produced on my iPad 4 using NodeBeatHD, Cassini, Alchemy, AUFX:Space, MultiTrack DAW, Auria, and Audio Mastering. This track showcases presets from Sunsine Audio's Casini 1+2 Bundle for Cassini.
Composed and produced by Qid Love.
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About LABELabel
LABELabel is an interesting Substack-powered subversion of the traditional label idea. It is a label for artists that release some portion of their content on Substack. Here’s the original post that started it all, with more info and directions for joining:
Wow, improvising this live was a feat of endurance. I don't think that I can keep my cool for that long.