Kronos Quartet Terry Riley: Sun Rings CD

Commissioned by NASA for the Kronos Quartet and featuring pre-recorded sounds from the plasma around planets, Terry Riley's Sun Rings is about as close an experience to being in space as it is possible to be. The ten-movement 'spacescape', as Riley refers to it, is a multimedia work for quartet and chorus, opening with recorded audio of the static heard from radio emissions in space. These are all triggered by members of the quartet's hand movements over sensors.

1. Sun Rings: Overture 2. Sun Rings: Hero Danger 3. Sun Rings: Beebopterismo 4. Sun Rings: Planet Elf Sindoori 5. Sun Rings: Earth Whistlers 6. Sun Rings: Earth/Jupiter Kiss 7. Sun Rings: The Electron Cyclotron Frequency Parlour 8. Sun Rings: Prayer Central 9. Sun Rings: Venus Upstream 10. Sun Rings: One Earth, One People, One Love