Fans of the 1973 Pink Floyd album “The Dark Side of the Moon” can travel to major U.S. cities like Chicago or New York — or else to Germany, Great Britain, Korea or Australia — to watch an immersive, fulldome video extravaganza celebrating the 50th anniversary of the landmark work.
When Ben Senson, director of the Madison School District's planetarium, brought "Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon" to Madison, tickets to the first show dates quickly sold out.
Madison School District planetarium director Ben Senson had a 5.1 sound system installed at the facility in time for "Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon" to do justice to audio for the immersive fulldome production.
“The Dark Side of the Moon” spent 18 years on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and has sold more than 45 million copies. The album grapples with the themes wealth, sanity, death and time, and solidified Floyd’s transition from jam band to serious rock band. It was also Roger Waters’ first credit as a sole lyricist, which would define the band’s sound and the course of its career for the next decade.
Ben Senson, director of the Madison School District's planetarium, first found out about the planetarium show "Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon" at a national planetarium convention. "It is one of the best integrations of visuals with music that you could ever imagine,” he said.
SAMANTHA MADAR, WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL
The old "starball" projector at the Madison School District's planetarium has been replaced with a Digistar 7 system but remains on-site.
SAMANTHA MADAR, WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL
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During next week's solar eclipse, Ben Senson will join a historic replication of the Eddington experiment, which showed how gravity can bend light.
When Ben Senson, director of the Madison School District's planetarium, brought "Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon" to Madison, tickets to the first show dates quickly sold out.
Madison School District planetarium director Ben Senson had a 5.1 sound system installed at the facility in time for "Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon" to do justice to audio for the immersive fulldome production.
Ben Senson, director of the Madison School District's planetarium, first found out about the planetarium show "Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon" at a national planetarium convention. "It is one of the best integrations of visuals with music that you could ever imagine,” he said.
“The Dark Side of the Moon” spent 18 years on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and has sold more than 45 million copies. The album grapples with the themes wealth, sanity, death and time, and solidified Floyd’s transition from jam band to serious rock band. It was also Roger Waters’ first credit as a sole lyricist, which would define the band’s sound and the course of its career for the next decade.
