Planetary System (ic extraction)

An otherworldly concert of four (!) stellar parts. Swiss composer and drummer Jessie Cox reflects on migration, planet and cosmos. With Afrofuturism as his inspiration, it should come as no surprise that the Harvard professor has already teamed up with Sun Ra Arkestra. For this new composition, he comes to Ear To The Ground and teams up with guitarists Maarten Stragier and Pierre Bibault. And with ... an unlikely mass of space junk. On the website ASTRIAGraph, you can see in real time all the objects floating through space, and that traffic is part of the ever-changing score that Stragier and Bibault translate into sound with a heavy dose of improvisation. And the plastic, cotton and rubber between their strings? That refers to the mountains of plastic waste and the plundering expeditions of colonists in ‘unexplored spaces’ of the past.