Some commentary from planetarium show producer Max Crow:
“I needed a different type of composer who was more rock band orientated than used to orchestras or synths, so Dylan was ideal for us. It was a tough job, he has a really solid understanding of the technical aspect of music and then had to break all those conventions by constructing a soundtrack that had to hit the most punishing constraints and not sound like a mess. It’s complicated, you’re hitting timings set by the visuals, trying not to crash any dialogue as well as composing a musical canvass that follows the ups and downs of the scene. None of this phased Dylan and he produced a phenomenal piece of work.”
“planetarium music [had] got too serious mainly because of the grandiose nature of space, and that bloody Holst. So with planetariums (slowly) opening up to new areas of science, cultures and a range of age groups, it allows us a wider scope of musical styles. “