The duet, which paired Ms. Guillem with a similarly dressed and often classically solicitous Massimo Murru, lasted about 20 minutes and was set to a David Morrow composition, heard, like all the program's accompaniment, on tape.
In addition to six performances at NYSCI, Maker Space was the site of a three-week education program that introduced 60 Queens middle-schoolers to the fundamentals of music composition through the use of iPads, Lemurs and other digital music-making tools.
It's now set for launch in 2017, when it will be joined by the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), an addition to the International Space Station also selected as part of the Explorer program last week that will use a process called X-ray timing to study neutron stars.