Astrophonics

Mark Armstrong is a singer-songwriter, physicist, computer scientist, actor and public speaker.  His first published song, “Flight of Fancy”, is the end-credit song for the documentary film “Armstrong” and has been performed many times including at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center (with the National Symphony) and various other places in Europe and the United States.  Mark resides in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife Wendy and they have three children.  Mark is passionate about music, technology, exploration and doing all we can to preserve our amazing planet Earth.  Mark is the younger son of Neil and Janet Armstrong.

Kali Armstrong is a songer-songwriter living in Helena, Montana.  She focuses on world issues, the environmental crisis and our humanity through all forms of music, including rock, folk, blues and bossa nova.  Kali can be found performing often in her home state of Montana, be it as a solo artist, or with numerous bands including the tribute band "Pinky and the Floyd", or the Montana-Havana bridge project "Cubusa".  In March 2024, she performed with John Mitchell's band Lonely Robot on the progressive rock "Cruise to the Edge".

Stephan Koopmann was born in Berlin in 1958 and began playing guitar there at the age of 11.
In 1972 he had his first jazz-rock band with older bandmates who had already completed their music studies.
Stephan is a passionate self-taught artist and worked several times as a studio musician at the Detmold Music Academy (Germany - North Rhine-Westphalia) between 1979 and 1981.
He has lived in Braunschweig (Germany, Lower Saxony) since 1980 and had several bands there (Ikarus, D.C.Robertson, Safer Six, The Golden Memories of Elvis, Cocker Cover Crew, Abenteuerland, etc.) with many appearances, record productions, radio shows, television appearances, NDR listening festival, and won competitions. He has been working as a guitar teacher since 1988, including as a lecturer at various workshops for the Lower Saxony State Music Council. Since 1997 he has been an employee of the city of Salzgitter as a music school teacher for guitar. There he also worked as a guitar teacher at the Jazz and Rock Workshop Salzgitter and was an accompanying musician at the Salzgitter international drummer meeting with well-known drummers such as Bernhard “Pretty” Purdie, Ricky Lawson, Tal Bergman and others. In 2022 he met Kali & Mark Armstrong at a “Legends of Space” project in Lausanne (Switzerland). The extraordinarily good collaboration led to the “SpaceShip Earth” project, which is a matter close to the heart of everyone involved and hopefully contagious.

Michael Stern was born on August 19, 1964 in Schöningen, Lower Saxony. As a small boy, his parents gave him an organ, and music was to play a major role in his life from then on. Fascinated by a French bassist from the band “Deliverance” at the time, he bought his first bass guitar in 1979. After a short time he founded his first band with friends. Numerous performances led to more experienced musicians taking notice of him, and so after a short time he was playing in bands that were on a completely different musical level.
Progressive rock, jazz rock and funk were the themes that determined his bass playing in the 1980s. Bands like Rush, Yes and Genesis from the progressive corner influenced him a lot. But bassists like Jaco Pastorius also became his role models. In 1994, Michael Stern founded the pop/rock group “Gain One's End” with his brothers Alexander and Stefan to celebrate their musical heroes. The jazz rock trio “Drei Mann am Leben” with his brothers was one of the numerous projects that took him further musically. At the beginning of 2000 he founded the band “NoRegrets” with new musicians where he met his current
wife Julia. From then on we also went together musically. At the same time, he developed an interest in sound technology, which greatly influenced his musical career. He quickly made a name for himself as a sound engineer and was booked by many companies to oversee large events. In 2004, this activity gave rise to the company Stern- Veranstaltungstechnik, where his son Max also works today. This many years of experience should then also have an impact in our own recording studio, where great projects are repeatedly created together with musical companions. Michael Stern also always works on his own compositions and arrangements that have accumulated over the years.

Michael Wagner's bio coming soon!

First accordion lessons at the age of 9, first school band at the age of 15, started studying music at the University of Music in Nuremberg at the age of 18. During his studies sound programmer and keyboarder in top 40 bands until his engagement at the Braunschweig State Orchestra as 1st bassoonist. Also highly regarded at the State Theater as a specialist for synthetic sounds and
keyboard technology. Keyboardist in various tribute bands for over 15 years and still fascinated by working with modern studio technology and sound programming.

Julia Stern was born on July 4, 1979 in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. She discovered her love for music, dance and theater when she was in kindergarten and so she played,sang and wrote dance and theater pieces throughout her school years. Singing lessons with various lecturers such as Roland Loy, Jane Comerford, Lindsay Lewis, Luise Straßheim and others followed, as well as participation in choirs, bands and musicals. In 2003 she started as a background singer in the Robbie Williams
cover show “No Regrets”, with which she toured Germany.
There she met her husband, the bassist Michael Stern, with whom she set up the company Stern Veranstaltungstechnik in Schöningen in the following years. In addition to the company and singing, she hosts events and loves not only leading people through concerts or programs, but touching them through words and music. In 2019, Julia and Michael founded the band “Gain One's End”, in which they primarily play songs that affect them themselves. From the greats like David Bowie, Peter Gabriel and U2. 
'Because music goes very deep and touches all people, in this and other universes.’

From an early age on, Jördies Treude planted the seeds of her musical career by singing in the children's choir and learning recorder, piano and cello. She played in classical ensembles at the local music school, discovered her love for vocals and started singing in a Jazz Choir and several bands of varying stiles. From 1995 to 2000 she studied Jazz singing at the Hilversum Conservatory and in Amsterdam. You can hear her live in a-cappella- and vocal ensembles with the band, as well as lead singer in own projects and she is delighted to add her voice to support the Spaceship earth choir and this wonderful team.
 
Bands: The Alligator Souls, Female Affairs (a-cappella), Out of the box, Good Weibs, Dear Hope (Vocal-Piano Duo), My old school ( Steely Dan Cover)

Tanja Eppert was born in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony in 1966 and has been working in the marketing industry for more than 30 years. She discovered her love of music early in the 70s through her brother's records by Sweet, T-Rex and Queen. When she was 12, the Kiss starcut was hanging in the teanagers room and at 14, her brother took her to a band rehearsal. Since then, she has alawys favored performing live music over going to the disco.
 
At the age of 17, Tanja became the singer of the rock band D.C. Robertson, for whom she also composed songs with her current husband Stephan Koopmann.
 
In 1990, the coverband Safer Six was founded. With an explosive selection of songs from Van Halen to Mothers Finest, the formation made a name for itself in northern Germany. In 1996, Safer Six managed to transform their hard rock program into an unforgettable unplugged show.
 
From 2000 to 2002, Tanja was involved in various fusion band projects that emerged from her professional environment and won several competition prizes. At the same time, she became the lead voice of the heavy metal band Peacemaker, with whom she rocked German stages in the following years.
 
In addition to excursions into gospel music, Tanja's journey continued towards funk and soul as the singer of SugarPlanet at the end of the 2010s.  But as versatile as Tanja's voice is, her heart still beats for the harder tones.