Leonardo Barilaro aka the Space Pianist is officially playing in a lane no one else is even orbiting. Zero Gravity, Note One, released November 14, 2025, is the world’s first EP recorded live during a parabolic flight, and honestly, that alone would’ve been enough to make people lean in. But the music? It’s not a gimmick. It’s a blooming, weightless vibe, carrying the kind of calm curiosity that hits you right in the “what’s next?” part of your brain. The whole project feels like a teaser trailer for the future of performance art, a way of showing what music can sound like when gravity stops being a rule and becomes a suggestion.
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1. Star Wars – zero-g piano: The opener is short, playful, and kind of surreal in the best way. You can literally hear the space environment shaping the phrasing, the notes float longer, the rhythm bends in tiny natural ways, and the whole thing feels suspended in slow-motion.
It’s not a cover; it’s more like an homage filtered through zero gravity’s distortion field. A gentle handshake into a whole new form of expression. This track sets the tone: not cinematic in the blockbuster sense, but cinematic in that “you’re inside a live experiment” way.
2. SCRAT – zero-g piano: This one snaps straight into a blooming groove, probably the most rhythmically grounded moment of the EP which is funny, because it’s recorded in an environment with no “ground.” Leonardo feeds into that tension, letting the melody bounce and twist, almost like it’s ricocheting off invisible surfaces inside the aircraft. It’s inspired by his earlier work with the SCRAT Project at ESRANGE, and you feel that scientist-meets-artist duality all over it.
The track keeps a pulse, but it’s airy, curious, and constantly shifting. It feels like a musical journal entry from someone literally floating during the recording.
3. Note One: This is the emotional centerpiece, the moment where the EP becomes more than a cool technical stunt. “Note One” is warm, reflective, and calm.
You can tell Leonardo is reaching for something bigger than the present moment: the dream of performing fully in space, the idea of human creativity stretching beyond Earth, the decades-long vision that started when he was 12 and first imagined playing piano among the stars. The melody rises and falls like breath, smooth and unhurried, the kind of theme that could easily live in a sci-fi film’s “looking out the window of a spacecraft” scene.
It feels like the first chapter of something… fitting for a project literally called “Note One.”
Zero Gravity, Note One is short, experimental, and quiet in its confidence, exactly the kind of EP that signals a turning point. Leonardo Barilaro isn’t just building a discography; he’s building a roadmap for a new era of space-infused music. If this is “Note One,” imagine what “Note Two” will sound like from the ISS… or Mars.
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