They perform in the world's largest wind tunnel – and their music is going into space. Oliver Wainwright meets the 'experience designer' behind Nasa's new orchestra
As a student, she built a volcano in her living room, made dark matter in her kitchen sink, and built a chair that simulates the three stages of the Soyuz rocket launch. So for designer Nelly Ben-Hayoun, the next logical step was to get inside Nasa. "It was completely impossible," she beams. "So I had to do it. When I want to do a project, I imagine myself sitting in someone's office, badgering them until they say yes. And then it happens."
The French designer's story is told in her first feature-length documentary, The International Space Orchestra, which has just had its UK premiere in London. The film shows Ben-Hayoun setting out from London, where she is based, for California last June, and turning up...
As a student, she built a volcano in her living room, made dark matter in her kitchen sink, and built a chair that simulates the three stages of the Soyuz rocket launch. So for designer Nelly Ben-Hayoun, the next logical step was to get inside Nasa. "It was completely impossible," she beams. "So I had to do it. When I want to do a project, I imagine myself sitting in someone's office, badgering them until they say yes. And then it happens."
The French designer's story is told in her first feature-length documentary, The International Space Orchestra, which has just had its UK premiere in London. The film shows Ben-Hayoun setting out from London, where she is based, for California last June, and turning up...
- 6/3/2013
- by Oliver Wainwright
- The Guardian - Film News
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