Audiences love film with live orchestra concerts. But presenting blockbuster Hollywood films in concert involves high licensing fees. These dramatically impact your budget and reduce the profitability or feasibility of your event.

Cosmic Cycles is a cost-effective alternative to typical film with live orchestra. It offers a cinematic orchestral experience with stunning NASA visuals created especially for this work—without licensing costs for film. That's because NASA’s multimedia assets are in the public domain and are made available to the public at no cost.

Why Cosmic Cycles?

1. It's a high impact program,
2. It's financially accessible,
3. NASA Visuals + Great Symphonic Music = High Ticket Sales.

Duration:
Approximately 105 minutes, including intermission (between movements four and five), entrances, tuning, and bows/applause.

Movements:

1. The Sun (10:45)
2. Earth, Our Home (12:00)
3. Earth As Art (6:00)
4. The Moon (10:30)
5. Planetary Fantasia (12:45)
6. The Travelers (7:15)
7. Echoes of the Big Bang (15:45)

Instrumentation: 
3(pic).3(2corA).2.bcl.2.cbn - 6.4.2.btbn.cbtbn.1 - timp.3perc: BD- cyms- glsp- rainstick- shaker- 2SD- sus.cym- tam.tam- 2tamb- tpl.bl- thundersheet- tom.t- t.bells- whip- windmachine- vib- xyl- 2hp.pf(cel).syn - str (16-14-12-10-8)

Double Bass:
C-extension required in Movements 1 and 6.

Synthesizer:
The following synthesized sounds should be installed on an Apple MacBook with Logic Pro or MainStage and played with a MIDI controller.

1. “Cathedral Organ”
2. “Cinematic Choir”
3. Data sonification sample of sound from the black hole at the center of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster.

NASA Multimedia Content:
Your production manager can download the accompanying multimedia content for FREE from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. Click the button below to access concert copies (with no audio) of each video.

Concert Program Content:
Click the button below to download content for your physical or digital concert program, including a synopsis of each movement.