Vishnu Ravindran Nair’s upcoming album Stories From A Space Station is inspired from astronauts
The Hindu
The independent musician from Bengaluru likes to link music and science
Science, astronomy especially, has been a fascination for Vishnu Ravindran Nair over the last few years. He was a little late to realise its wonders. His school did not help spark any interest. It was only after college, he discovered videos and documentaries of things that exist beyond this planet. Soon, he jumped into a vortex where he came across names such as Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Edgar Mitchell and more. This was also when he took to music. The two worlds seemed apart. Music, Vishnu felt, usually dealt a lot more with love, politics and society. Even his songs, until two projects ago, dealt with these topics. So, he decided to make music that was themed around science. His single ‘Through The Haze’, released last year, for instance, broadly fits into genres of ambient synth music, prog rock, alternative rock among others. The song is conceived around the concept of entanglement theory in quantum mechanics and its implications on the possibility of parallel universes. His upcoming five-song album is titled Stories From A Space Station. It attempts to convey an astronaut’s perspectives on love, science, history and the future of humankind. “The objective in making an astronaut the protagonist and writing in his character was to attain a vantage point, to where I am removed from the immediate socio-economic, cultural and political climate around me and so be enabled to reassess objectively the subjects that interest me,” explains Vishnu.More Related News