The International Space Orchestra‘s teaser with music by Arthur Jeffes of Penguin Café mentioned as part of BBC Two, Culture Show critical design series See Prof Dunne and Raby explaining about Critical Design, and the International Space Orchestra mention here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p014g2lj

Words by Kevin Holmes for The Creators Project See the full article here Conducting an orchestra of scientists and musicians to broadcast music into the cosmos might sound like an idea you’d come up with late at night after one too many whiskeys, but artist and designer Nelly Ben Hayoun made it happen. Gathering together […]

Read Article on The Creators Project here Words by Shahneze Tsouria : Imagine scientists from NASA Ames, Singularity University, International Space University, and the SETI Institutecoming together to form a supergeek orchestra that broadcasts their sounds into deep space… French artist and experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun imagined it, and she brought it to life. […]

The International Space Orchestra is very honored to have Gorillaz ‘s musical director on board! Mike has arranged Damon Albarn’s composition for Bobby Womack and the International Space Orchestra. A Graduate of Leeds College of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Mike has for many years, toured, recorded, arranged and orchestrated […]

Rusty plays Bari Sax loudly in the ISO and also tries to sing Bass. On his 49th birthday, Rusty was the NASA Flight Director when the LCROSS team hit the Moon’s South Pole and found buckets and tons of ice in the permanently shadowed Cabeaus crater, re-writing science textbooks and forever changing our understanding of […]

Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom, VP, Operations, Singularity University Emeline has degrees in Physics, and Earth and Space Science, and attended the ISU summer program as a student in Strasbourg, France. She has been involved with the International Space University for 20 years serving as full time and volunteer staff for nine ISU summer programs around the world in […]

 Martin Thoolen, Head of Drug Development, Edison Pharmaceuticals Martin plays contrabass. Hailing from the Netherlands, he and his family have called the US home since the early eighties. Martin pursues both classical and jazz music, and has played with a variety of community bands and orchestras, including the Ames Jazz Band, The Lyratones, The Friday […]

Prof Chris. Welch is Director of MSc Programs at the International Space University (ISU) in Strasbourg, France. He has a PhD in spacecraft engineering from Cranfield University in the United Kingdom – where he is also adjunct faculty – and an MSc in space physics from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. His […]

Peter was born in San Francisco. A father of three teenage girls and a husband to a yoga teacher, he has spent most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1987 he received a BA in Computer Science from University of California at Santa Cruz (go Banana Slugs!) In 1988 he began […]

Jonathan Knowles is a senior advisor to the CEO and CTO at Autodesk providing thought leadership and insight on the intersection of emerging technology and social trends, the impact of discontinuous innovation, and beyond the horizon technologies. Knowles is a former faculty member of the Claremont Colleges, a lifelong learner from the University of California, […]