Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra Live at the Adler Planetarium (film)

saturday, september 28

TIME: 2:00pm-3:00pm; 3:15pm-4:00pm (first session includes 15 minute talk back with filmmakers)

VENUE: Logan Center Screening room. 915 E 60th Street

Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra Live at the Adler Planetarium (film)

On March 24 of last year, Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra used Chicago’s Adler Planetarium as a launch pad for a multimedia spectacle that broadcast a transcendental message to the cosmos. This video documents this singular performance, which featured original images by Mazurek projected onto the planetarium’s domed ceiling and the Orchestra’s hypnotic interpretations of music from the most recent Exploding Star Orchestra album, Lightning Dreamers (International Anthem, released 2024).

Rob Mazurek - director, trumpets, bells, voice, compositions

Nicole Mitchell - flute, voice, electronics

Damon Locks - voice, samplers, electronics

Tomeka Reid - cello, electronics

Craig Taborn - Wurlitzer electric piano, moog, electronics

Angelica Sanchez - Wurlitzer electric piano, Moog

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten - bass

Chad Taylor- drums

Gerald Cleaver- drums

Recorded Live in the Grainger Sky Theater of Adler Planetarium, Chicago, March 24th, 2023.

Video images by Rob Mazurek with technical assistance from Mathieu Constans and Brian Ashby.

Video directed by Brian Ashby.

Produced by Experimental Sound Studio & International Anthem.

Warning: Strobing light effects are used throughout this film that may affect photosensitive viewers.