TEMKO - Darkness Rises Orchestral - Live concert recording with philharmonie zuidnederland

TEMKO performs Darkness Rises (Orchestral version) TEMKO ft. philharmonie zuidnederland With Video by Dries Alkemade Karel Deseure - Conductor Fred Jacobsson - Bass & Laptop Ramon Lormans - Marimba & Percussion Aart Strootman - Guitar & Composition Toon Bierman - Piano & Celesta www.temkomusic.com Darkness Rises - 12 Billion kilometers. A farewell. On January 22nd 2003 NASA established final contact with 'Pioneer 10’, a space probe launched in 1972. In a macrocosm that exceeds our imagination of distance and time, a transmission sent over 12 billion kilometers not only mark the last we have seen of Pioneer 10, but somehow it has is also the last it has seen of us. Set to travel through the vast emptiness for the next 2 million years craned with the finest of 70s technology Pioneer 10 is one of the most distant remains of human presence and might be the first to reach new stellar objects. It is this slow farewell that inspired Aart Strootman to write "Darkness Rises"; a translation of technology and space itself into music. A 30 year-long radio transmission of Pioneer 10's journey towards the unknown, comprehended into a 50-minute experience, including a sonification of the last dataset from Pioneer 10 ever to be received and a video tailor made by Dries Alkemade, fitting the piece as a glove. The original composition was commissioned by Intro in Situ and the Sonic Skills, department of University Maastricht. The orchestral version is a commission by philharmonie zuidnederland