I think it’s also the passion and the energy and the commitment that we made to the Grateful Dead. Well, I think it’s a combination of who we are. What do you think it is about the Grateful Dead’s music that makes it still so important to so many people and still so relevant today? It was so sexy.” He employed Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter to fill in the words, but the result is an album with grooves that have more in common with Thievery Corporation than, say, American Beauty. “I just couldn’t resist the thought of dancing with the beginning of time and space,” he says. For their new album, Mysterium Tremendum, Hart built songs around the sonification of “epic events” that have happened in space, using his new stella library. Since then he has assembled the Mickey Hart Band, which features Widespread Panic’s Dave Schools on bass and Broadway performer Crystal Monee Hall on vocals. Hart first began using these sounds of the universe in the famed “Drums -> Space” segment of Dead shows in 2009. “And what we find out in deep space is very, very noisy,” Hart tells Rolling Stone. Space itself is a vacuum where no sound can escape, so Hart commissioned a team of scientists to measure the properties and light waves of certain celestial bodies – from planets and stars to entire galaxies and nebulae – and convert them to sound waves using advanced algorithms. But in recent years, Hart has been exploring music from outer space – quite literally. As a musicologist with the Smithsonian Institute, Hart has explored historical rhythms from around the world. As the percussionist in the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart explored the outer reaches of American popular music.
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