And Safely Back To Earth

“…And Safely Back To Earth” is a non-narrative four-part video by Gregory Damien Grinnell with a semi-improvisational score by Mission Creep, sourced entirely from archival NASA footage, tracing the arc of space exploration from it’s early days to the present and beyond.

Source film + live audio above is from “No Telemetry” @ The Midway Cafe, Jamaica Plain MA, 04.26.17. A night of film and live music accompaniment featuring several Boston area artists, filmmakers and composers observing Yuri’s Night—a global celebration of space exploration occurring each April—in commemoration of April 12, the date of Yuri Gargarin’s first manned spaceflight (1961) and the inaugural launch of NASA’s Space Shuttle (1981).

Gregory Damien Grinnell: electronics, trumpet, bass, keys; Yuri Zbitnoff: drums; Tony Savarino: guitars; PEK: reeds; Tamara Gooding: electronic percussion