Entropy: Live Astronomy Documentary Meets an Electronic Music Performance

熵：现场天文学纪录片遇上电子音乐表演

• 批准号: ST/N000293/1
• 负责人: Katarina Markovic
• 金额: $ 3.5万
• 依托单位: University of Portsmouth
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FN000293%2F1
• 关键词: Entropy; Live; Astronomy; Documentary; Meets

'Entropy' is an art-science collaboration that aims to frame public talks about astronomy with a live audio-visual performance. The best way to describe it is as an astronomy-documentary-meets-electronic-music-concert and it will be performed at science, music, and art festivals across the UK and internationally. Alongside the main event, several workshops will be organised, centred around the science and aimed at schoolchildren, where the children will be able to speak with the scientists to learn about astronomy.For the audio-visual performance, bespoke music tracks have been produced, inspired and guided by the contents of the talks. To supplement them, visualisations will now be created that will be projected on special screens during the performance and will enhance the immersive, and interactive aspects of the event. These visualisations will be created from real astronomical data from experiments like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Dark Energy Survey, as well as from computer simulations of supernova explosion, growth of the cosmic web etc. Furthermore, some of the concepts described in talks, for example the cosmic inflation at the birth of our universe, or the creation of ordinary matter when inflation ends are very difficult to visualise for the public and not many scientifically correct videos of them exist in the public domain. Such videos will be created as a part of this project and after the initial year of performances, they will be released under the Creative Commons Licence into the public domain.The Entropy team started working together in 2011, when they first formed under a working title of 'Neutrino'. They consisted of: Zazralt Magic now at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, whose expertise lie in the field of stellar astrophysics, Katarina Markovic now at the Institute for Cosmology and Gravitation in Portsmouth, who is a cosmologist, and Dopplereffekt, from Munich, Germany, who are a renown electronic music duo, whose compositions have always been inspired by science and technology. Later, the team was joined by Antivj from Brussels, Belgium, who are a cutting-edge visual arts studio and will create the visuals as well as the stage set-up.This project presents science to the public in an entirely new format that will appeal to science, music and art fans alike. We expect to reach several thousand people in the first year just with the live performance. Online we count on tens of thousands of views of the material we release and expect that it will be used by many scientists and outreach officers in their public engagement activities in the future.

“熵”是一项艺术与科学的合作，旨在通过现场视听表演来组织公众对天文学的讨论。最好的描述方式是将其描述为一场天文学-纪录片-电子音乐-音乐会，它将在英国和国际上的科学，音乐和艺术节上演出。除了主要活动外，还将组织几个以科学为中心的讲习班，目标是学生，在那里孩子们将能够与科学家交谈，学习天文学。在视听表演方面，根据讲座内容的启发和指导，制作了定制的音乐曲目。作为补充，现在将创建可视化，并在表演期间投影在特殊屏幕上，以增强活动的沉浸感和互动性。这些可视化图像将从真实的天文数据中创建，这些数据来自斯隆数字巡天和暗能量巡天等实验，以及超新星爆炸、宇宙网增长等的计算机模拟。此外，演讲中描述的一些概念，例如宇宙诞生时的宇宙暴胀，或者暴胀结束时普通物质的产生，对公众来说很难想象，而且在公共领域也没有多少科学正确的视频。这些视频将作为本项目的一部分进行创作，在演出的第一年后，它们将根据知识共享许可协议发布到公共领域。熵团队于2011年开始合作，当时他们第一次以“中微子”的暂定名称成立。他们包括：现就职于哥本哈根尼尔斯·玻尔研究所的扎兹拉尔·Magic，他的专长是恒星天体物理学；现就职于朴茨茅斯的宇宙学和万有引力研究所的Katarina Markovic，他是一位宇宙学家；还有来自德国慕尼黑的多普勒effekt，他们是著名的电子音乐二人组，他们的作品总是受到科学和技术的启发。后来，来自比利时布鲁塞尔的Antivj加入了这个团队，他们是一个尖端的视觉艺术工作室，将创造视觉效果和舞台设置。这个项目以一种全新的形式向公众展示科学，这将吸引科学、音乐和艺术爱好者。我们预计仅通过现场表演，第一年就能吸引数千人。在网上，我们发布的材料有成千上万的浏览量，我们希望在未来的公众参与活动中，许多科学家和外联官员会使用这些材料。