Album in progress
RAREEARTH
Released one song at a time
I'm writing Rare Earth one song at a time and putting each one out as soon as it's finished. Four are out now. Follow along and watch the album fill in.
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MADE FOR THE SONGS
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01 · Music video + deep dive
Moongazing (望明月)
An astronaut spends thirteen months at the lunar south pole while her family looks up at the Moon from Earth. Her International Moonbase doesn't look like a movie moonbase: it's built only from technologies we'd really use, and real science experiments fill out the world. Drawn in ink, silk and gold by JavaScript.
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02 · Music video + deep dive
Orbital Sunrise
Alexei Leonov's first spacewalk and the hand-flown landing of Voskhod-2. The equations around his head are real, for anyone who pauses to read them: as close as we could get to what he was computing once the guidance system failed, from a reconstruction of the orbit built on mission logs, Leonov's memoirs and other primary sources. Every frame drawn in colored pencil by JavaScript.
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About
Jade Q Wang
Jade Q Wang is a musician, poet, martial artist and scientist. She started classical piano before three, played violin in elementary and middle school, and taught herself guitar. Since then: PhD in neuroscience, postdoc at NASA Ames, took hacker houses mainstream, and a decade in open-source software at Sandstorm and Cloudflare.
Now she's writing Rare Earth one song at a time, including reviving some 2011–2013 songs from her band, Robot Ninja Apocalypse (RNA). She also plays video games with her husband Kenton Varda and their kids in Austin.
