What's in a name?

Today I thought I'd share some of the ideas behind the name of our organization OUTERSPACES.

(Stars old and new, M46 and M47, picture credit)

We're called OUTERSPACES for two main reasons:

1. The music you will hear at our shows is on the outer edge of what's played in concert halls today. It's unknown and different from what's going on in major art hubs like NYC or LA. It's our own movement: there is no specific musical style to what we present, but it all shares a collective intention. New music can sometimes be quite alien, but it's something worth being explored, discovered, and understood. Outerspaces strives to put new music within reach. 

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2. We play in spaces outside of the formal concert hall. This season all of our shows are at Mount Vernon Music Space, an intimate homelike venue.  In the future, we'd like to expand to bars, art galleries, restaurants, and other innovative atmospheres. In addition to a different setting, our concert experience strives for something new. Music is played without breaks, freely flowing from one set to the next. There's no need for polite applause, react how you want at anytime.

For our first season, we decided to name all of our concerts after celestial bodies in celebration of exploration of the unknown. Later in the week we'll give you more info behind the name for our first concert: Bellerophon, the first planet that was discovered outside of our solar system. In the mean time, check out this video showing spectacular rarely seen views of our own planet :

Earth from Michael König on Vimeo.