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The Vortex Concerts

Posted on August 20, 2010, 1:09 pm, by francesco d'orazio, under music, planetarium, visual music.

In 1957 the composer Henry Jacobs convinced the Morrison Planetarium in San Francisco to let him use their newly renovated four-track surround-sound system for a series of concerts. Jacobs commissioned new pieces of electronic music from international composers and asked Jordan Belson to prepare visual imagery that could be projected on the dome during each number. [...]

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Immersive Globes Series | The Sweden Solar System: Stockholm as a giant planetarium

Posted on June 28, 2009, 5:38 am, by francesco d'orazio, under globes, planetarium, scale model.

The Sweden Solar System is the world’s largest model of our planetary system, at a scale of 1:20 million. The Sun is represented by the Globe arena in Stockholm, the largest spherical building in the world. The planets are placed and sized according to scale with the inner planets being in Stockholm and Jupiter (diameter [...]

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