Introduction
This innovative mission is created to offer the ultimate distance learning capabilities where music educators can interactively instruct students worldwide that are equipped with the new SHADD interactive synthesizer keyboards. The intention is to distribute the keyboards to the most impoverished schools in the US and worldwide to afford students the rare opportunity to interact and collaborate with affluent/resourced schools, teachers, students, celebrity musical artists, and the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Our unique multi-lingual devised curriculum will enable astronauts to interact with students on earth worldwide to share science, space activity, and of course, make music…all interactively. Notwithstanding that our technology presents a great learning experience for students, but we also understand that interactive technology provides well-being therapy for astronauts during their 6-month stay on the ISS.
Latency Free Performances
We have experienced undeniable success with new interactive technology that enables musicians to play music together, in real-time and in-sync. With musicians playing their instrument separately from each corner of the world, the amount of latency is compared to musicians playing together at only 10-feet apart in a room, which basically feels LIVE, and virtually LATENCY FREE!!! Now, we wish to test from earth to the International Space Station with the intent to create the First Interactive Musical Performance from Space!
Space Collaborative Benefits
Teachers and students will be able to share music, education, culture, learn to operate computers (via the keyboards), learn international business, make new friends worldwide, increase the spatial temporal of the brain, learn each other’s language (via our instant translation software), augment math comprehension, learn space science and activity, geography, and create/perform music together. We are also elated to include innovative solutions for autistic, deaf, and blind students to fully participate along with those who have lost arm/hand extremities to be able to perform on the keyboards via mind control. This groundbreaking engaging mission will also assist in generating interest and recruiting STEM/STEAM students to work in the space industry.
Latency-Free Interactive Performances
Students (on left) interact with ISS astronaut (on right) for distance learning performances from space.
Shadd Starr Interactive Keyboard (S.S.i.K. 8)
As the first and only REAL interactive musical instrument, the SHADD Starr interactive keyboard is the exclusive musical instrument that encompasses interactive technology that enables countless students, teachers, and musicians worldwide to interactively perform simultaneously ‘all-together’ in real-time and virtually in-sync.
One of its important features is its Assistive technology that allows full interactive musical participation for the autistic, deaf, blind, and those with neurodevelopmental disabilities and neurobehavioral disorders. An additional special differentiator is its breakthrough innovation that allows individuals that have lost a limb to totally control the keyboard’s functions and to play the keys via ‘mind control’ as the brain guides the hands to move across the keyboard keys to play music.
With a ton of amazing synthesizer sounds, an onboard computer, transparent touchscreen monitor, video cameras, microphones, surround sound speakers, beat pads, alphanumeric keyboard with mouse pad, and much more, the incomparable SHADD Starr is the most highly equipped keyboard in history! To accommodate the large size of the astronaut’s gloves during space walks, we will produce keys that are sized to make it easy to play.
Band On The Moon
Never say “Never!”
As we have recently witnessed, space has emerged once again with many technological firsts that once-upon-a-time seemed impossible. Here, we are presenting the first electronic musical instruments on the lunar surface where astronauts will ultimately become the first LIVE band that performs on the moon.
Artemis ll & lll
Musical Instruments Established on the Moon
On the exploration of Artemis ll and lll, astronauts can be pre-musically prepared enough to perform along with prerecorded music that will play inside their extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) helmet or commonly known as space suit helmet, which will also enable astronauts to hear each other’s real-time collaborative performance via shared radio connections. Thus, musical instruments will travel up as cargo to land on the moon. During both Artemis ll and lll landings, the musical instruments that will be affixed to the lunar surface will lend the opportunity for the astronauts to perform together interactively with musicians on earth, in virtually real-time and in-sync. This breakthrough innovation creates the first LIVE band performance on the moon.
Moon Band Instrumentation
Instrumentation will be comprised of new electronic digital instruments, produced specifically for outer space performances, i.e., electronic drumset, electronic digital bass (non-stringed), electronic digital guitar (non-stringed), digital synthesizer keyboard (SHADD Starr), etc. To combat the extreme temperatures on the moon that reach a boiling 250 degrees Fahrenheit, while nighttime temperatures drop to a chilly -208 degrees Fahrenheit, the musical instruments and associated connecting cables will be manufactured with nonflammable materials conducive for longevity in the moon’s exosphere, such as Kevlar, aluminum, titanium, thermal glass, and polycarbonate and polysulfone plastic. However, if the lunar landing spots are within the moon’s pits and caves where temperatures hover around 63 degrees Fahrenheit, then the interior materials to be used on the SHADD Starr keyboard aboard the ISS, can easily survive with the same materials produced for the ISS.
Our Current Associates
Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU), American Music Therapy Association, IBM Watson, Harvard Medical School, idenTV, University of Georgia, Boston Children’s Hospital, Accenture, Fix Audio Designs, Touchstone Research Laboratory, The Vatican, Rolls-Royce, renown technologists, educators, and Grammy award winning music directors.