Music Meets NASA Space Science
Indian Singer Joi Barua Composes Music for NASA-Linked Cosmic Rhapsody Production
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Indian singer-composer Joi Barua is contributing to Cosmic Rhapsody, an international orchestral and multimedia production that links astrophysics with performing arts. He composed melodies for “Star Among the Cosmic Clouds” and “Confetti Storm,” and co-composed “Confetti Star-Ion” with French composer Manu Martin, who leads the project’s orchestration. Created by Susan Lim and Christina Teenz Tan, the immersive production follows a human and an AI traveling through space to seek solutions to Earth’s environmental crisis. Its themes of supernovae and stardust connect with NASA’s COSI mission at UC Berkeley, which studies soft gamma rays to investigate how stellar explosions produce elements essential to life. Barua said the collaboration shows how scientific inquiry and imagination can work together.
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COSI is intended to help map where elements such as iron and aluminium are created in exploding stars, adding specific scientific detail to its study of soft gamma rays.
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Barua said the project’s supernova imagery shaped his musical approach: rather than viewing a star’s explosion as an ending, he treated it as an act of creation that could help form new worlds.
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Barua described the collaboration as a message to young people in India that “logic and imagination belong together,” adding that combining science and performing arts makes “your canvas” the universe.
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Beyond his work on Cosmic Rhapsody, Barua’s film credits include playback, vocal-arrangement and background-singing work on Agent Vinod, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, DevD, Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. and Lage Raho Munna Bhai; he also sang “O Meri Laila” from Laila Majnu and composed for Margarita with a Straw.
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