Here’s an excerpt of Michael Trigilio’s death metal score generated from the MESA stellar model data:
FREE Sneak Preview of Our Star Will Die Alone
September 30, 2013 by
There will be a free sneak preview of our La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival show “Our Star Will Die Alone” on Thursday, October 3rd at 8pm, on the south patio of Galbraith Hall. No guarantees, people. Our main performances will be Friday & Saturday nights at 10:30pm; tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the La Jolla Playhouse webpage
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Early press for Our Star Will Die Alone
September 30, 2013 by
Project Planetaria’s upcoming performance “Our Star Will Die Alone” was featured in a recent article in the San Diego Reader by Chad Deal. It spills the beans on the identity of one of the musicians for the “Death Metal Dying Star” portion: SD local rocker Bobby Bray, who’s played with The Locust and The Innerds. Come see them tear our star apart!
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Using Stellar Evolution to Generate Music Score: Part 1
August 21, 2013 by
As part of our upcoming performance Our Star Will Die Alone, we wanted to generate a music score inspired by the actual evolution of a star as it evolves off of the main sequence – as it “dies” so to speak. To generate this, we used an open source software package called MESA (Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics) developed by a team of astronomers and utilized by an extensive community of researchers, teachers and students to study how a star evolves with time (the code will be used in Adam’s undergraduate and graduate stellar astrophysics courses at UCSD this year).
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Project Planetaria in the LJP Without Walls Festival
August 21, 2013 by
Project Planetaria will be presenting our new work, Our Star Will Die Alone, in two performances at the La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival, October 4-5 at 10:30pm. The site-specific piece will explore what it means to live the life of a star through a participatory performance, integrating data-driven elements that our rooted in our scientific understanding of stellar astrophysics. Audience members will witness the birth of our star, explore its fusion through hand-held custom electronic devices (“Project Planetaria Devices”) and listen to its chaotic, post-main sequence death throes with a heavy metal score based on stellar evolutionary calculations. Through sound, light, projection, and a death metal band, this performance will articulate the productive and destructive aspects of our primary source of light and energy.
Tickets ($15) can be purchased at Festival website: http://www.lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival/productions/star
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