Nelly Ben Hayoun and team have just arrived in California! This mark the beginning of the International Space Orchestra! The International Space Orchestra has lift off! Blending space science, planet-poking and bluegrass-playing spacecraft operators, the world’s first orchestra composed of space scientists is coming together to broadcast the first-ever orchestral recording directly into deep space. […]

The International Space Orchestra is delighted to have Phoebe Greenwood on board! Phoebe is a marvelous project manager and she will be working with Nelly Ben Hayoun on making the International Space Orchestra happen (2012).

Rodney Martin works in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames, where he has among other things been involved with data analysis and algorithm development for predicting tele-operator intent for Robonaut, fault detection for liquid propulsion systems on the SSME (Space Shuttle Main Engine), pre-launch diagnostics for Ares I-X, and currently is focused on more […]

Jimmy is Vocal Director for the San Francisco Boys Chorus. He has performed in over 45 operas, including 15 appearances at the San Francisco Opera. He is passionate about singing and education and works with The Venezuelan Music Project an El Sistema style-system (as made world famous by Gustavo Dudamel), for choir singing. He studied […]

The International Space Orchestra official badges! Designed by Marvelous David Benqué Here is a bit more on David: Stories are the way we grasp information and integrate it within the context of our lives. In a world where science is progressing at an exponential pace, my practice of design aims to craft subtle and engaging […]

Jasmina Tešanović is a part of the ISO choir, she also co-wrote the Kepler Aria for the ISO in the summer 2012 at NASA Ames Research Center. Below is more about powerhouse Jasmina: Jasmina Tešanović (Belgrade, 1954) is writer, feminist, political activist (Women in Black, Code Pink), translator (Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, Sandro […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]