{"id":8117,"date":"2017-02-01T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=8117"},"modified":"2017-02-01T17:13:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:13:45","slug":"an-orchestra-teaches-about-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2017\/02\/01\/an-orchestra-teaches-about-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"An Orchestra Teaches About the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday January 24th, Hill Auditorium\u00a0transformed into an expeditionary vehicle that carried us through the\u00a0solar system. Emmy-nominated\u00a0artist Jos\u00e9 Francisco Salgado created a Science and Symphony performance using his phD in Astronomy to translate astronomical\u00a0concepts into visual arts.\u00a0The University Symphony Orchestra guides\u00a0us through outer space, stopping at each planet with the accompanying sound of Holst\u2019s &#8220;The Planets,&#8221; Weber&#8217;s &#8220;Concerto in F,&#8221; and Mozart\u2019s\u00a0Symphony No. 41 &#8220;Jupiter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hill Auditorium:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8119\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4069-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4069-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4069-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hill Space Odyssey:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8118\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4070-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4070-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4070-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>The journey began at Mars, &#8220;The Bringer of War&#8221; with loud, violent sound. Next Venus, &#8220;The Bringer of Peace&#8221; with light, uplifting harmony&#8230;and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting there thinking about these masses so big and so far away, my mind drifted\u00a0to a place far beyond\u00a0the Milky Way. Note the amphitheater structure of the auditorium. The wall behind the screen provides a base to the sound and the extends outward to maximize sound projection. The physics of sound in the auditorium\u00a0is similar to the physics of placing\u00a0handheld music devices into a bowl to amplify the sound. After you clear out the matter in the cup (tea, dust, coins), the cup so small can make a big difference in how one\u00a0enjoys music.<\/p>\n<p>If you look closely, the sideways basin structure resembles that off a cup, almost like the auditorium itself is a cup tilted on its side. So if we explore beyond\u00a0earth, beyond our solar system, into something far larger than what we know, what will we find? We can see and prove\u00a0microscopic life smaller than us like the\u00a0little mindless bacteria. We have yet to understand the life larger than us..what if we are in that cup so small<\/p>\n<p>In reference to the Dr. Seuss story\u00a0<em>Horton Hears a Who,\u00a0<\/em>we know there are no whos, but are there Hortons?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/66671\/10-facts-about-horton-hears-who\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8123\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/jh4kjh4-1-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/jh4kjh4-1-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/jh4kjh4-1.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday January 24th, Hill Auditorium\u00a0transformed into an expeditionary vehicle that carried us through the\u00a0solar system. Emmy-nominated\u00a0artist Jos\u00e9 Francisco Salgado created a Science and Symphony performance using his phD in Astronomy to translate astronomical\u00a0concepts into visual arts.\u00a0The University Symphony Orchestra guides\u00a0us through outer space, stopping at each planet with the accompanying sound of Holst\u2019s &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8117"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8139,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117\/revisions\/8139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}