The eighth movement, "The Resurrected and the Song of the Star Aldebaran, " strikes a meditative mood, with strings chanting a gently shifting melody while stars twinkle and birds twitter in the glockenspiel, piccolo and piano.
After her stint with Aldebaran in Paris she went back to MIT to get a master's degree, then worked for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (which makes space probes), and Syyn Labs, a robotics art collective.