Sound and Music

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing the Science Museum in its centenary year, alongside Sound and Music, present the premiere of a new arrangement of Brian Eno's 1983 album Apollo by Sound and Music shortlisted composer Jun Lee.

The performance – featuring the amplified ensemble Icebreaker with BJ Cole on pedal steel guitar – will be in the Museum's IMAX cinema accompanied by original NASA footage of the moon landings used by director Al Reinert in For All Mankind. The event also includes a performance of new material based on recordings from space by laptop artists Douglas Benford and Iris Garrelfs in the gallery featuring the Apollo 10 capsule. Reflecting back on a time when people looked at the stars and dreamed and experienced the magic, mystery and awe of our universe in Eno's gravity-defying music.

Artists:

Icebreaker with BJ Cole
Douglas Benford
Iris Garrelfs

Apollo is produced by Sound and Music, in collaboration with the Science Museum

Arrangement supported by Richard Shoylekov