Multiverse: Octave of Light

When:
Thursday, Nov 12, 2020 7:30p -
9:00p

Where:
Online event
1 Science Park
Boston, MA 02114

EventScheduled OnlineEventAttendanceMode

Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Innovation, Music, Performing Arts, Virtual & Streaming

Event website:
https://www.mos.org/multiverse-octave-of-light

Over 4,000 exoplanets have been discovered — are any home to life?


Multiverse is an interdisciplinary concert and event series combining music and science in live performance. After a sold-out smash performance of Hidden Worlds in the Charles Hayden Planetarium last fall, and two groundbreaking digital events this summer, the Museum teams up with Multiverse once again for a new virtual event this fall to celebrate the release of the new full-length album Octave of Light!


Join Multiverse to explore this crucial question and celebrate the launch of Octave of Light: an album of exoplanet music by composer David Ibbett. David has sonified (light->sound) their spectra into a musical language of molecules and exoplanets, woven into music for soprano, violin, piano and electronics.


Octave of Light was created in collaboration with Roy Gould of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and features soprano Beth Sterling, violinist Amelia Sie, and the composer on piano+electronics. For this spectacular launch event, the musical pieces will be joined by stunning astrophysics visuals created by the Planetarium animation team.


Guest speaker Clara Sousa-Silva will take us from the beginning to the future of exoplanet science — including her own cutting-edge research at the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Will chemical combinations be the key to discovering life on another world?


[FEATURING SECTION]
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. Clara Sousa-Silva, MIT


PERFORMERS
Beth Sterling, Soprano
Amelia Sie, Violin
David Ibbett, Piano, Electronics

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