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.
Composed and arranged by Rob Mazurek, Alien Flower Sutra is the apogee of a collaborative conceptual process that bloomed over multiple years, voices and instrumentations.
Video produced by Mazurek, in aesthetic conjunction with the white-on-white ink-over-graphite pieces he painted for the cover of the LP release, which contains different recordings of Alternate Moon Cycles, also out December 2, 2014 on International Anthem.
Video by Mathieu Constans
Video creation method: Photographs of Rob Mazurek’s Time Travel series paintings and Radical Chimera screen/video sculptures put through unique computer program that shape shifts the images through sound.
Film by Mikel Patrick Avery
"Shape Shifter" from the album Lightning Dreamers. Video by Rob Mazurek.
The Farnsworth Scores is a cinematic and sonic meditation on Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House located in Plano, IL, created by artist and musician Rob Mazurek and filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt.
