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Hiten (Instrumental)

from Space Elevator Music (2001) by Elaine Walker (solo)

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This track is dedicated to the Hiten Japanese spacecraft of 1991 that traveled to the moon using Edward Belbruno's chaotic orbits (weak stability boundary transfer, or "Belbruno Transfer"). The Cover Art: "Route to the Moon", oil on canvas, 56" x 72", 1991, Edward Belbruno. The Poem: "The Navigators" by Keith Gottschalk, South Africa. The Music: "Hiten" by Elaine Walker. See Ed Belbruno’s home page. lyrics

See Elaine's single Hiten for the vocal version.

Credits:
Music by Elaine Walker Lyrics adapted from "The Navigators", an original poem by Keith Gottschalk
Cover art by Ed Belbruno

All songs © 1999 ZIA

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lyrics by Elaine Walker

1990: a muse flew up from Kagoshima
turned into chrysanthemum that circles Earth & Moon

Hiten, Space Flyer, gave birth to Hagoromo
Then, on wings - fractal wings - choreographed by Belbruno

Spiraled wider to the fuzzy boundary of infinity
So changing her course as migrating wild geese

She soared up to take the watch in a higher sky

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Lyrics were adapted from "The Navigators", an original poem by Keith Gottschalk (below)

The Navigators
by Keith Gottshalk, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Ed Belbruno

could Ed & the 3-body problem
score a pas de trois for heavenly dancers?

1990: a muse flew up from Kagoshima
turned into chrysanthemum that circles Earth & Moon.
Hiten, Space Flyer, gave birth to Hagoromo
then, on wings choreographed by Belbruno
spiralled wider to the fuzzy boundary of infinity;
so changing her course as migrating wild geese
she soared up to take the watch in a higher sky.

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Kagoshima - Japan's Cape Canaveral
Land of the Chrysanthemum - Japan
Muse-A, Hiten, Hagoromo - Japanese space probe
fuzzy boundary transfer - trajectory that enables aspacecraft, with no more fuel, to be speeded up or slowed down by gravities of a planet & its moons

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from Space Elevator Music (2001), released January 1, 2001

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Elaine Walker is an electronic musician and microtonal composer. She is the author of a non-fiction book, Matter Over Mind: Cosmos, Chaos, and Curiosity. Realizing she had a gift for visualizing mathematics as an adult, she now has several published math papers (see arXiv.org). She volunteers for the NewSpace community, promoting the idea of humans living on Mars. She is also a member of Alcor. ... more

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