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Particle physics, the aria
Author: Bernd Hölzner
The Boston Globe recently published an interesting Q&A with Harvard theoretical physicist and DLD speaker Lisa Randall who is collaborating with composer Hèctor Parra and artist Matthew Ritchie on a chamber opera project entitled "Hypermusic Prologue: A projective opera in seven planes". Randall has emerged as a public face for the complex fields of cosmology and particle physics. In her 2005 book "Warped Passages" which was written for a general audience, she gives a remarkably clear account of how the existence of dimensions beyond the familiar three may resolve a host of cosmic quandaries.
With her recent project, Randall and her colleagues hope "the old-fashioned form of opera can become a vehicle for modern science, using sound and voice to re-create the many dimensions that physicists now explore". Says Randall: "The scientist is also a composer. You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of it as discovering this whole new way of seeing the world". According to Globe author Samuel P. Jacobs, the opera is scheduled to debut in Paris at the Georges Pompidou Centre in summer and then travel throughout Europe.
Read the whole interview with Randall here.
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