TWO SCREENINGS:
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, Chicago, IL

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.