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Music masterpiece 'Clair de Lune' beamed to space station in NFT 1st - Space.com
Aug 02, 2021 1 min, 20 secs

Last week, the companies Nanoracks LLC and Artemis Music Entertainment teamed up to beam a recording of composer Claude Debussy's piano masterpiece "Clair de Lune" ("Moonlight") to and from the International Space Station.

But the two companies minted this version of "Clair de Lune" as a non-fungible token (NFT), making it the first music NFT to reach orbit, Artemis Music representatives said. .

Photos: Building the International Space Station.

"The cosmic perspective of space inspires a cognitive shift in humans," Artemis Music co-founder Bob Richards said in a statement.

"'Clair de Lune' perhaps comes as close as possible to stirring the emotions of awe and wonder experienced by space travelers.".

The digital file zoomed around Earth for about 90 minutes, completing one orbit in the process, before being transmitted back down and minted as an NFT, Artemis Music representatives said.

Last week's "Clair de Lune" action was a test of its Artemis Space Network, a new space-based commercial platform for music and entertainment media.

"So, the first node test of the Artemis Space Network was to really prove out communications protocols and the process of minting the digital work into an NFT that would be meaningful, valid and authentic," he added.

If all goes according to plan, many artists, musicians and other creators will use the Artemis Space Network in the future, beaming their own works to orbit — and, eventually, to the moon, Mars and beyond, Richards said.

For example, the "Clair de Lune" NFT will eventually be sold, but the proceeds will go to the Artemis Music Foundation, which aims to support artists and get people excited about space exploration.

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