On Friday lunchtime, we will be holding an outreach session in ISEC 102 titled "The Music of Physics". There will be a light lunch available to those attending the panel discussion, AFTER the session (no food/drink can be brought in the ISEC classrooms).
The Music of Physics and a tour through related projects at the MIT Media Lab
Featuring Prof. Joseph Paradiso, Juliana Cherston, Lancelot Blanchard from MIT
Scientists from the team of MIT Media Lab will demonstrate an application built to allow the public to create their own music from the data of proton collisions in the ATLAS Experiment on the LHC at CERN. The plan is for a live selective stream of events to be made available for the app and for visualisation simultaneously on the web. There will be a presentation on MIT Media Lab describing and demonstrating this work that also touches on music that is generated from other kinds of data, ranging from Tokomaks to Tidmarsh (an instrumented wildlife sanctuary south of Boston), as well as other projects such as live AI augmentation for virtuosic performers in live settings, and recent sensor deployments in space applications. But through all this, you will have a chance listen to collisions mediated by the virtual ‘ears’ of different composers.
More information on Prof. Joseph Paradiso, Alexander W Dreyfoos (1954) Professor and Associate Academic Head for the Program in Media Arts and Sciences at MIT: https://www.media.mit.edu/people/joep/overview/
