Atmosphères Radio Orchestra conducted by Ernest Bour. Kubrick would go on to employ other Ligeti compositions in his films "The Shining" and "Eyes Wide Shut". According to program notes published by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Ligeti was not pleased that his music occurred in a film soundtrack shared by composers Johann and Richard Strauss. Nevertheless, the piece has been performed in concert several times with other works featured in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey", such as a 2010 performance by the Nashville Symphony which performed it along with the full-length version of Richard Strauss' "Thus Spake Zarathustra". A 2006
2001: A Space Odyssey (film) science-fiction films of the time, Kubrick used Homers "The Odyssey" as inspiration for the title. Kubrick said, "It occurred to us that for the Greeks the vast stretches of the sea must have had the same sort of mystery and remoteness that space has for our generation." Kubrick and Clarke planned to develop the first, free of the constraints of film, and then write the screenplay. They planned the writing credits to be "Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, based on a novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick" to reflect their preeminence in their respective fields.