Mandala (A Musical Palindrome), by Daniel Starr-Tambor

With more than 62 vigintillion individual notes, "Mandala" is the longest palindrome in existence. Composed using the first nine partials of the Natural Harmonic Series repeating at the accelerated tempos of our solar system, Mandala would continue without repetition for over 532.25 septendecillion years. In homage to "Art of the Fugue" by J.S. Bach, "Mandala" has been crafted to include the "musical signature" of it's author: the stereo imaging is arranged to reflect the exact position of the solar system at the moment of his birth, from the perspective of the Sun as it faces the constellation Libra, so that each note chronicles his birthday on every planet.

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[robertanthonyfarrell]

Very interesting indeed, and not at all unpleasant. But you may benefit from learning the difference between "its" the possessive pronoun and "it's" the contraction - you used "it's" instead of "its" twice and it must have made at least one person other than myself sad. This is my only criticism. :)

[starrtambor]

@robertanthonyfarrell

Its been noted :)

[raimalarter]

This is wonderful, so interesting but also totally mesmerizing musically. Do you have a longer version? It would be great to have this go on for 20 minutes or so.

[starrtambor]

@raimalarter Thank you!

I have a little over hour recorded (the amount of time for 10 revolutions of Pluto as well as the data limit of a CD). I listen to it with a sample of Tibetan monks chanting, but until I get copyright permission for that, I can't share it. I put the first and last 7 minutes, as well as the middle 14 minutes on Google Music... they don't allow uploads of more than 15 minutes, but I'm working to see if iTunes does.

[peternummer14]

Awaiting the inevitable dubstep-remix :P

[SchumiUCD]

Is that Pluto at 2:01?

[mymusicthingy]

@SchumiUCD No, I don't think Pluto appears until 3:21

[songmakersinger]

I really hope this goes on Itunes, I could listen to this all day. :)

[almi1701]

Aleatoric Minimalism + Science = COOLEST SONG EVER WRITTEN

[ThePouceGoose]

@SchumiUCD That's an A, so on 1:07 it would be the third from the bottom, possibly Uranus.

[firealpha]

The music of the spheres.

[mcolomy]

This was absolutely fascinating.. You would love The Book of 528.. namaste`

[tpoisot]

This is brilliant.