Moon chamber

Upper Ring Assembly

Fabulous flute 5tet
by Danny English, Jennifer Jo, Aydan Hensley, Jillian Reed, Alison Fierst, Ali Dettmer, Jacob Fulkerson, Nick Castellana, Mark Helenurm, Riccardo Schulz

This piece uses a jazzy idiom to evoke United States Americana, as it was the American astronauts who were the first and only humans to land on the lunar landscape. 1:22

Blood Moon
by Caleb Lombardi, Christoffer Thygesen, Dhruva Krishna, Roger Romero, Arnav Tayal, Gregorio Trost, William Middleton, Riccardo Schulz

Blood Moon was co-written by the four members of the jazz-fusion band Eastend Mile. The band members started writing the music on September 27, 2015, the night of the final eclipse of the ongoing lunar tetrad – four total lunar eclipses in a row, spaced at six full moons apart. The moon appeared red, which was caused by the Rayleigh scattering of sunlight through the Earth’s atmosphere, the same effect that causes sunlight to appear red. 6:31

The Ballad of Lowry Lagrange
by Lance LaDuke, Mark Baskinger, Craig Knox, Matt Zywica, Riccardo Schulz, Bernardo Campos, Kara Puscaric

The Ballad of Lowry LaGrange is a lighthearted song for the MoonArk project that is a about the MoonArk project. The ‘Lowry’ of the title refers to Lowry Burgess, former Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon and one of the principal forces behind the integration of art, architecture, design and music on the lunar robot. 2:43

Color on the moon
created by Cathy Murphy and her lab / University of Illinois curated by Chris Robinson, University of South Carolina

Scattering Color: Nano Rod: red
Scattering Color: Nano Rod: purple
Scattering Color: Nano Rod: blue
Scattering Color: Nano Rod: green
Scattering Color: Nano Rod: orange

Pigments and dyes are small molecules, derived from animals and vegetables, that have color due to the absorption of light. Nanoscale metallic particles, however, strongly couple to light, and light is both absorbed by them and scattered from them.  The exact nanoscale shape of the gold particles in this sample, from spheres to short rods to long rods, determines the observed color.