CMA presents "Exploring Mars: A Multimedia Event"
Please join us as Josh Nelson presents his "Discovery Project," a multimedia event featuring selections from his 2015 album, Exploring Mars, which investigates musical themes inspired by the Red Planet. Besides music, the event incorporates NASA/JPL Mars archival footage and computer simulations.
The Discovery Project is an ongoing multidisciplinary collaboration and presentation featuring live music, video projection, and art installations. Each event is unique and aims to create an immersive experience for the audience, using original musical compositions and a variety of concrete and abstract moving images projected onto sculptural forms.
Contributors and Performers:
- Josh Nelson—pianist/keyboard, composer, arranger
- Travis Flournoy—film archivist, projectionist
- Jesse Ottinger and Claudia Carballada—scenography
- Brian Swartz—EVI, trumpet
- Larry Koonse—guitar
- Alex Boneham—bass
- Dan Schnelle—drums
Josh Nelson maintains an active schedule as a jazz pianist, composer, teacher, and recording artist. He has performed with some of the most respected names in jazz, including Natalie Cole, Anthony Wilson, George Mraz, and Jeff Hamilton. Josh has recorded for many albums, films, and TV shows, but also makes time for his own projects, including the albums Anticipation (2004), Let it Go (2007), and I Hear a Rhapsody (2009). His album Discoveries (2011) coincided with the beginning of the Discovery Project.
This event is free. All members of the Campus and JPL communities and retirees are welcome. Caltech personnel and guests can access the auditorium via the external gate; no visitor badging or escort is needed. For more information, contact Randii Wessen at (818) 354-7580 or [email protected]. Or email [email protected].
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