Looking for $21M to record an album on the moon

A $21M Kickstarter project aims to record an album of lunar folk music, on the Moon. Erik writes, "This video breaks down the entire plan for purchasing, colonizing, and writing a folk album on the moon, down to giving Neil DeGrasse Tyson a year long salary for being awesome, and includes a sample Lunar folk song. Also, the people in it are dressed like Frankenstein's Monster and its bride."

Space Folk Album: Lunar Aid 1985

• [Jack Kieffer]

  If this gets funded… I am going to start a Kickstarter called “build an underwater submarine that looks like a troll face,” and say that I need to raise $20 million.  I bet these guys will just record something on Garageband and pocket the money – IT SOUNDS THE SAME AS IF YOU WERE TO RECORD IT ON THE MOON.

  • [Paul Renault]

     Actually, if you just repurposed Cages’s 4’33″, you could really claim you recorded it on the moon.

    Then you could start another $20MM Kickstarter called Bring’Em’Back – “So we can bring the bodies home”. 

    • [Jack Kieffer]

      Hahaha that is a genius idea!

    • [kmoser]

       In space, no one can hear you play. Oh, wait…

• [darkjayson]

  I think there bananas cos there ain’t no bananas on the moon.

  • [morcheeba]

    there bananas? ;-)

    • [darkjayson]

       But there not on the moon lol

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4f9m4OYkCY

    • [petite poubelle]

       Just look at them.

• [trackofalljades]

  That’s cute and all, but that’s not even enough money for a single launch, of anything, to low earth orbit let alone the moon.  If they’re gonna make a joke, why not at least make it borderline realistic?

  I can’t help but imagine this being read in the voice of Dr. Evil.

  • [petite poubelle]

     I was thinking Dr. Doofenshmirtz.  But then again, I have a 6-year-old.

    • [relawson]

      They’re building a Folk-the-moon-inator!

• [z7q2]

  The moon has no atmosphere so you can get the same results recording in a pressurized metal box here on earth.

  The real cool project is recording an album on MARS with robotic acoustic instruments. Microphone design alone will keep audio geeks arguing for a decade on how to do it right.

• [Martin Williams]

  Reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandaba_Style

• [icastico]

  I’m in if’n a drummer is needed. 

  • [Just_Ok]

    Keith Moon was the first choice, but…

• [Eark_the_Bunny]

  In space no one can hear you er, sing and thank goodness for that.

• [malindrome]

  Some would say that the Earth is OUR moon … but that would belittle the name of our Moon.  Which is The Moon.

  Point is: we’re at the center, not you.

  • [bcsizemo]

    I don’t need no instructions to know how to rock!

• [icastico]

  Sheet music for the project…
  http://whywereason.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/4minutes33seconds12.gif

  • [icastico]

    John Cage, of course

    • [BillStewart2012]

       If you’re recording 4’33”, you need a performer and an audience.

      • [icastico]

        But no atmosphere

• [trackofalljades]

  I thought Kickstarter had some kind of policy against hoaxes?  Don’t they have a curation process for how projects get posted, have their rewards structured, etc?  I guess I don’t get why they would approve this.  It’s not all that funny, and it definitely doesn’t do anything for the legitimacy of the Kickstarter brand.  I guess I’m missing something.

  • [icastico]

    It isn’t strictly outside the guidelines, but probably fails their definition of a project, since it is not going to “eventually be completed”. I would guess they don’t care unless someone “reports” the project. 

  • [Halloween_Jack]

     Scroll down to the bottom for a description of who they are: “Stuff Monsters Like is a satirical blog about monster life, written from a monster’s perspective.” So, they’re a ripoff of Stuff White People Like who are doing this for publicity’s sake, I guess.

• [Just_Ok]

  Monster Cable should fund them

  • [s2redux]

    Except with Monster the price tag would jump 4X to $84M, and no one except the funders would believe the results. Bose could take over the project for only $63M but, despite the terrific-looking literature extolling the company’s theoretical breakthroughs, their attempt to cheat Newton’s Third Law by EQing the hell out of a massive array of 4″ “Boseter stage” rocket cones will fall horribly short.

• [Just_Ok]

  I thought Pink Floyd already did a Dark Side of the Moon concert.

  • [BillStewart2012]

     And Poor Man’s Whiskey did “Dark Side of the Moon Shine”.

• [Chris Johnson]

  Here’s a space-related Kickstarter project that actually has some life in it… $12K from 104 backers in the first 3 days, decent press coverage, and it just made it to the final rounds of a NASA small business award competition…

  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/575960623/ardusat-your-arduino-experiment-in-space/posts/248680?ref=activity

• [Theh4x0r]

  I’m thinking there are probably 21 million worthier causes than this.

• [BillStewart2012]

  Reminds me a bit of Alan Steele’s short story of the concert at the Mars Hotel.

• [Dave X]

  I thought that the whole reason for going to the moon was to get AWAY from folk music!

• [Art]

   I’m sure that the Museum of Modern Art  would be chompin’ at the bit to fund such a useless, (performance) concept :)

• [Lelielle]

  I thought the Cardigans were the first band on the moon…

• [Dan Hibiki]

  I think we all know what this means. We have to build a space helicopter. 

• [DIY DSP]

  Lucia Pamela recorded an album on the moon in 1969!  This wikipedia page doesn’t even begin to do it justice:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_Pamela

• [foslforever]

  I say 2 million people pitch in $10 bucks and we force these fuckers at gun point to go to the moon and play music.  OH then we’ll see who is laughing our asses off