WORCESTER – The Ecotarium Museum of Science and Nature, at 222 Harrington Way, hosts “Mars Symphony,” an interplanetary symphony of science performed live by a chamber orchestra, in its Alden Planetarium on Saturday, Aug. 9, for performances at both 6 PM and 8 PM.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Museum of Science collaborated to create the program.
Composer David Ibbett’s score reveals the music of Mars, transforming its natural sounds into “Martian synths” designed by his WPI Music and Science Lab. The program immerses attendees in the rush of Mars’ winds, dust devils, and seismic rumbles, complemented by orchestral melodies driven by the geography (areography) and light spectra from the Red Planet.
A science team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and ETH Zurich, informed the science behind the performance.
The performance includes cutting-edge audio and data from the Perseverance Rover and Webb Space Telescope and visualized by fulldome projections from the Planetarium’s award-winning team.
Tickets are $31 or $21 for Ecotarium members. Learn more and get tickets on the Ecotarium website.
See a trailer for the Mars Symphony below.
