The Telemetron Orchestra is a unique collection of musical instruments that take advantage of the poetics of zero gravity, opening a new field of musical creativity.
Design and performance by Nicole L'Huillier, Sands Fish, and Thomas Sanchez Lengeling.
design & microgravity
The Telemetron Orchestra is not only a set musical instruments. It is the first step into broader questions about how human culture will evolve in the microgravity environment. We hope that this work will inspire the realization that there are entirely new cultural frontiers in space that designers will soon engage with.
2019 Zero-g flight
The Telemetron Orchestra’s first performance happened this year on a zero gravity flight with the MIT Space Exploration Initiative. Sands Fish and Thomas Sanchez Lengeling flew on the flight and learned a lot about weightless performance.
You can read more about it here.
Open hardware platform
We are currently developing new designs for the creation of culture in outer space and microgravity environments. Part of our commitment to democratizing space is the open-sourcing of our work so that a creative work in space will be that much easier to access for the next generation of designers and artists. We will post our design files and instructions here soon.
The Telemetron Orchestra Is Growing!
The Telemetron was born from an opportunity created by the MIT Space Exploration Initiative. Learn more about the first Telemetron performance in zero-gravity in 2018 here. You can read more about the constantly expanding Telemetron Orchestra, made of a variety of musical instruments designed to be performed in the weightless environment of space here.