“Always hoping that you have a brave day,
I’m the Groundskeeper of ASTRAL MILE, altair.
You can call me ‘altie’.”

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When altair lost the ability to dance as a kaigai idol,
he gained the ability to write lyrics that resonate with the darkest corners of people's hearts, with light and love.While maintaining the liminal space called "ASTRAL MILE", he works to reconcile his past and future while writing the things that can be hard to say aloud.

_{more about} altair of ASTRAL MILE:

altair of ASTRAL MILE (or simply "altair" or "altie") is a singer-songwriter, English translyricist, and multidisciplinary artist. He brings over 15 years of experience as a kaigai idol, performer and animator to inspire his community, the Astralnauts, to "have a brave day".In May 2024, Catalina -- the song he wrote and co-performed under the first iteration of LossNFound -- ranked Top 80 internationally for the Audience Choice - Music category for Honkai: Star Rail's Multiverse Vistas competition, proving that a holistic, healing approach to music production can still affect the hearts of many.In March 2025, altair teamed up with Brother Ming Games to produce Standing Frozen to promote their Star Rail Tarot fan project. The MV depicts the story of his own spiritual awakening through choreographed movement of the cards.Other notable projects as lyricist include Yumemi夢美's "Brilliant Sky/鮮やかな空", Abyss Idols' "Rainy Season/梅雨" & "This is Me/それは私", and many English and Japanese translyrics created for his own and others' YouTube channels.altair lives with several disabilities that impair his ability to work like many of his peers, but believes that part of having "brave days" is learning how to pursue one's ambitions within the situations that are handed to them. As a result, his holistic and process-centric approach offers collaborators a much more nuanced and intuitive form of discipline that is not often seen in the virtual music talent community.While no longer a practicing idol himself, altair is always open to collaborate with currently-active idols as a mentor and collaborator. In this way, he hopes to be able to return the gifts that the kaigai idol stages had provided for him during his formative years.Born in S. Korea and raised in Vancouver, altair now resides in Toronto, Canada.

[redesign + rebranding in-progress -- displayed images are not final]
[official designs will be updated June 7, 2025]

about ASTRAL MILE _{(Chapter Two)}

Suspended above the present, tethered by the strings of the past and future, there exists a space where long-lost ambitions abandoned can be given a second chance.This space is now known as “ASTRAL MILE”: a mile along what was once known as the Astral Highway, born from a tear caused by one side running for the future, and the other running towards the past.The carriers of those ambitions are sprites known as Astralnauts, and they spend their moments of awareness here, humming out memories that are then recorded and transcribed by the Groundskeeper.In the process of performing his duties, the Groundskeeper also faces the pursuit of his own “ambitions”...

[full concept lore releases on June 7, 2025]

August Yoon

a visionary, an outcast... and my dad.

My dad was never one to "fit in". And while it's easy for a visionary to live like that, I'll admit that he's the one who taught me how to be comfortable in my own skin.Before he was my dad, though... he was a scrawny kid from the Red Light District of Chuncheon, S. Korea.His life as an artist began in middle school, when his art teacher told him to see her after class. Recognizing this country kid's infinite potential for painting, she handed him a set of watercolours and paper."From now on, everyday after school, I'll lend you my paints and paper. Paint for an hour each day."In a matter of months, that same art teacher took him and a fellow classmate to Seoul for student competitions. That budding potential was now developing into mastered skill: one that would open his own shows and gallery, and allow his family to immigrate to Canada during the South Korean Financial Crisis of 1997. Upon arrival, that same mastery would connect him with a community in a small town outside of Vancouver, BC. Later, he would pivot to a solo-run private art academy, teaching young artists after-school for years, leading up to their Portfolio Day reckonings.Another financial crisis would force him back to Korea, though: the 2008 International Recession. Since many of his pupils were international students by this time, there weren't many left after the crash. With the help of some contacts, he flew back to Korea to trade in his artist brushes for a contractor's paint roller.He'd be like that for a while. And to be honest, there are gaps in this part of the story because he and I barely spoke at this time: nothing on him, it was bad timing. Can't say that I was the greatest family member during this time, either.Around 2022, though, things changed. He got diagnosed with a carcinoma in his bladder, and needed surgery. In a time when it mattered the most, though, no one was there to support him while he stayed in the hospital recovering.While not life-threatening, it was enough to put things into perspective: "Cancer is a disease of aging", he'd told me over the phone after discharge."How do I want to spend what I have left, then? I don't even have anything of value for my children to inherit!"He could have easily gone back to a life of masking around colleagues, saying "yes" to everything, and forcing himself to drink at work socials until his liver would beg for mercy.... But, he didn't. In his weakest moment, he'd found his true strength.And from the ashes of his old life, "August Yoon" was born.

Today, he continues teaching art for middle-aged ladies seeking refuge from their families, and teenage boys hoping for a future in artistry. In his free time, he's running up mountains at sunrise and painting his long-neglected heart out.
(He's had to downsize though... Had to convince him that no one can afford pieces three times his height in this economy.)He traded in performative conversations in a bar, for paintings & sculptures proudly created without an artist's intent:"If you feel something that can't be put into words, then you understand what it means."Jars of specimens in his high school bio-lab, paintings from Futurism artists of the past, landscapes burned into his memory from when he globe-trotted in the 80s, circular wheels and triangular masks... In every piece he creates, you'll find remnants of his mundane legacy: just a wallflower, his eyes always wandering.Time Traveller ran in mid-November 2024, both in Seoul and Chuncheon. He'd invited his old middle school art teacher to the Chuncheon run's opening night; she's now in her 90s. After sharing his story through his speech, he was able to hand her a beautiful bouquet and say, all these years later:"Thank you for having believed in me."And while, as his eldest, I have to hear him complain about how no one's buying his pieces ^{(no one has $300,000 these days, Dad...),}
he's much more content now, after trading in the paint roller for his old watercolour brushes.March 2025

FAN GUIDELINES

reproduction / distribution

(VODs, CLIPS, RE-UPLOADS, REPRINTS, etc.)

Any and all works covered by standard international copyrights may NOT be freely reposted, redistributed, reproduced in any way without explicit written permission(s) from altair of ASTRAL MILE AND all relevant Third Parties (i.e. collaborators, licence agencies, original songwriters/composers, etc.)

PLEASE DO NOT REUPLOAD ANY OF ALTAIR'S WORKS/CONTENT TO SPOTIFY/OTHER STREAMING SERVICES! This little bit of "convenience" is incredibly disrespectful, and infringes on several people's and parties' rights. Upon discovery, formal measures to take the tracks down will be made.

The only form of Compilation content allowed are for VOD clips and ~30-second snippets of music content. Please note that altair's covers of other people's songs will be subject to the respective artists' Content IDs. At this time, ASTRAL MILE Production releases do not have our own Content ID system in place, but this will change in the future.Full-song compilations, full VOD reuploads, full album re-uploads and/or re-distributions (digital/physical) are STRICTLY PROHIBITED! (This is incredibly disrespectful to altair and those he has worked with on the projects/streams.)For remixes/sampling and/or covers of original works, please refer to the derivative works section below.

Works covered by Creative Commons License(s) must still comply with the specified terms. Unless otherwise stated, ASTRAL MILE original tracks are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 and supercedes the 3.0 licenses of Bandcamp and/or other aggregates.

VODs will always remain archived unless explicitly stated as "unarchived stream(s)". Clips are always encouraged, but please use YouTube's "Clip" button when you do.If you want to be creative with your clip edits, please link back to the original VOD and link back to the channel in the description box.In situations where sensitive information may have been leaked, the VOD will be made public once the sensitive portions have been removed. This will usually take up to a week.Reposting of sensitive information leaks, unarchived streams and/or clips released prior to the VOD's public archiving are STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

community & interaction

(social media, comments, live chat)

(The following terms are subject to change with the needs of the community. Please keep an eye on the description box of livestreams for the most up-to-date guidelines. This page was last updated March 31, 2025.)

𝄢 Be respectful to EVERYONE: your fellow Astralnauts, visitors & raiders, and the streamer(s).
𝄢 No spamming the chat: if you can type and send a word every second, you can afford to string a sentence together before pressing send. (It's not easier to read, trust me)
𝄢 No backseating, please! This old man would like to figure things out for himself tyvm = A =
𝄢 Curiosity is always encouraged, but remember your manners!
𝄢 Everyone has the right to call each other out, but remember that it also means you're ready to be called out, too. (Groundskeeper included)
𝄢 Remember the creed of ASTRAL MILE: "have a brave day": Be kind, brave, and have fun!

regarding my covers/translyrics work:

(a.k.a. how to avoid really easy ways to disrespect a translator / translyricist)

𝄢 Please DO NOT compare English translyrics in the comments section.
Actually just... don't compare at all, please. It's disrespectful.

If you want me to know that you enjoyed my work, a simple ❤️ or sharing the link with your friends works wonders.

(I spent 10+ years in therapy to unlearn the habit of comparing myself to others, and I DON'T MISS IT.)

𝄢 Please DO NOT tell me that my translyrics are "incorrect".

In the words of David Diop (translated by Anna Moschovakis):
"To translate is to betray at the borders, it’s to cheat, it’s to trade one sentence for another. To translate is one of the only human activities in which one is required to lie about the details to convey the truth at large. To translate is to risk understanding better than others that the truth about a word is not single, but double, even triple, quadruple, or quintuple."

(tl;dr - it says more about your knowledge of the English language than it does of my Japanese comprehension.)
(also a content warning about where the quote is from: it's disturbingly dark. read at your own risk.)

derivative works

(COVERS, FANART, FAN LITERATURE, etc.)

(The following terms are subject to change with the needs of the community. This page was last updated March 31, 2025.)

Derivative works are defined as any and all UNOFFICIAL creative projects depicting altair of ASTRAL MILE, the liminal space of ASTRAL MILE, and/or LossNFound-related projects.So long as the following guidelines are followed, there is no need to obtain permissions from altair and/or ASTRAL MILE Productions."doujinshi" rules apply: projects that make little to no profit AND require little to no start-up costs (for physical merch).
If you're unsure, please contact altair with your project proposal and budget.For-profit projects: in addition to the guidelines below, please contact altair with your project proposal for further discussions, approvals, etc.

🌼 Be sure to tag your works with #AM_Astralnauts on social media so that I can share your posts! (You can also tag me~)🌼

(When in doubt, remember that the purpose of ASTRAL MILE Productions projects is to encourage unity + finding common ground.
Choose love and compassion.)

𝄢 The core of everything here is respect:
for ourselves, for others, for the environment.

PROHIBITED PROJECTS:
🚫 socio-political-religious commentary
🚫 discrimination / hateful depictions of any form
🚫 resource-intense and/or unethical content
(i.e. art theft, unconsented tracing, cloud-based generative AI, NFTs, etc.)
🚫 NSFW depictions
(excl. depictions of official "spicier" outfit designs from altair and/or associated project artists
-- alterations to altair's body are strictly prohibited)🌼 These are subject to change! Check before you post! 🌼

𝄢 Make sure that you don't break any laws,
and/or break anybody else's guidelines!

𝄢 Creative Edits (VODs/Clips/Remixes/Rearranges):
Welcomed and encouraged, but make sure to read below!

STANDARD COPYRIGHTED MUSIC TRACKS:

TRACKS UNDER CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE:

ALTAIR'S TRANSLYRICS OF OTHER ARTISTS' MUSIC:

VOD & CLIP EDITS:

IMPORTANT NOTE: DO NOT EDIT A CLIP WITH THE PURPOSE OF CANVASSING FOR CLIENTS!
They will be treated the same as any other solicitation/canvassing email: ignored and trashed.