August 29, 2016 • Blog

Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling wrote the Kepler Aria with Jasmina Tesanovic for the ISO over the summer 2012 in NASA Ames Research Center. Below is more about extraordinaire Bruce: Bruce Sterling is an acclaimed science fiction writer, Sterling is an Austin-born science fiction writer and Net critic, internationally recognized as a cyberspace theorist. Sterling has traveled the […]

August 29, 2016 • Blog

Maywa Denki

Spinning off their father’s old vacuum tube-manufacturing company, in 1993, brothers Masamichi and Novmichi Tosa established a performance arts collective called Maywa Denki. The company is well known for its ‘nonsense machines’ that involve the public in the creation process. Though decidedly oddball, products are generally cleverly designed and always fun. Although Maywa Denki is […]

August 29, 2016 • Blog

Penguin Café

Arthur Jeffes is a talented composer and the front man of Penguin Café. They are a group whose quintessentially English sound is influenced by folk, bluegrass, avant garde classical music and pop. Arthur is the son of the founder of the much-loved Penguin Cafe Orchestra, classically trained British guitarist, composer and arranger Simon Jeffes.  The […]

August 29, 2016 • Blog

Evan Price, ISO Musical Director

Violinist and composer, Evan Price, is one of the world’s most confident voices in extra-classical string playing. Some of the artists who have performed Price’s music include The Hot Club of San Francisco, Turtle Island Quartet, Quartet San Francisco, Providence String Quartet, Ying Quartet, The Grant Park Symphony, Orchestra Nashville, The San Francisco Girls’ Chorus, […]

August 17, 2016 • Tour

Savages + ISO

THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE ROCK BAND SAVAGES + INTERNATIONAL SPACE ORCHESTRA AT THE FILLMORE IN SAN FRANCISCO, 19th APRIL. Blending space science, planet-poking and bluegrass-playing spacecraft operators, the world’s first orchestra composed of space scientists – the International Space Orchestra – is coming together to perform two songs Adore Life and Mechanics with rock band Savages […]