Lunar Codex - Indigenous Music
The Norval Morrisseau Estate has teamed up with Lunar Codex to create a time capsule of Indigenous music from across Canada to be immortalized on the moon for the next billion years in their next mission departing in 2025. This specific time capsul will be placed on a SpaceX rocket called Polaris, which will be launched into space in September 2025, landing on the southern pole of the Moon in October 2025. 

We would like to include a wide selection of Indigenous music from coast to coast to coast, including traditional and contemporary social music that artists share with us. This means we will accept traditional social music – but NOT ceremonial music, even if it is offered to the project.

We invite all song creators, designated knowledge keepers, and copyright holders, of Indigenous music, traditional and contemporary, to share their music for this momentous moment where this music will be protected and put in a time capsule which can last up to 1 billion years on the moon.

There are no fees for inclusion in the time capsule. The Lunar Codex assumes all archival media costs, the costs of database and website documentation, as well as incremental costs of the rocket launch, and of payload space on the lunar lander.  

Please note this project confirms all participating artists will retain full copyright ownership of their work, and that no royalties will be paid to due this program's purpose to archive vs publish or distribute songs. 

Any and all copyright holders (such as labels, archives, museums and libraries) of indigenous songs who are not the creators or designated knowledge keepers will not be accepted due to the ethical limitations of sharing indigenous music without the nation's or creators concent. 

For more information on Lunar Codex time capsuls, please see their website.
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Email *
Do you identify as (you are welcome to share your nation's name under Other) *
Full Name / Musical Collective Name *
Pronouns *
Email *
Primary Phone Number
Location (City, Reserve, or Nation) *
Song Name *
Names of Song Writer(s), Lyricists & Composer(s) *
Names of Song Musicians & Singers *
This is only if the musicians and/or singers are different from Full Name/Musical Collective Name. If this is an ancestral song and the names are lost, please say so and share as much as you can about the makers of the music.
Musical Genre *
Song Origin *
Date of Creation *
If the creation date is unknown or too nuanced, please give an approximate answer (year is acceptable for new music, decade is acceptable for ancestral music).
Brief song description *
Language(s) spoken, song origin or history, meaning or story, what this song means to you and your community?
Music File Submission Instructions *
Send an email to music@officialmorrisseau.com with the subject line: 
LUNAR CODEX MUSIC [Full Name/Music Group Name] 

ALL FILES MUST BE:
  • Clearly labeled in the following format: [Full Name of musician, Musical Collective or Knowledge Holder]_[Song Name]_[Date of Creation]
  • MP3 format
  • Between 3MB - 5MB
  • Submitted by those authorized to share the knowledge (copyright holders, cultural knowledge keepers, direct makers of the music, etc.)  
Required
Copyright and Royalty Agreement *
The Norval Morrisseau Estate and Lunar Codex acknowledge that all artists who submit their music will retain full ownership of their copyright and that no royalties will be paid to selected music owners due to the program's purpose, which is to exclusive archive art and cultural knowledge vs publish and distribute it.

Therefore, all those who submit their music to the LCIMC project will not seek any amounts by way of compensation or damages or any other payments as a consequence of participating.

Please note: there are no fees for inclusion in the time capsule. The Lunar Codex assumes all archival media costs, the costs of database and website documentation, as well as incremental costs of the rocket launch, and of payload space on the lunar lander.  

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