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Amanda and I went down to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science last Friday to check out a show called "Life Out There". Here's a little snippet from the museum's webpage about the show:
State-of-the-art digital visuals and live musical interpretation by House Band to the Universe is your key to a mind-blowing trip through space and time. Search for the clues to life with space scientists David Grinspoon and Ka Chun Yu, PhDs, from the infant Earth to the mysterious, promising depths of Saturn's strangely vibrant moons. Presented with support from the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
The show was awesome! The instruments in the band were a saxophone, trombone, flute, vibraphone, drums, bass guitar, lead guitar, and rhythm guitar. Their sound was fantastical and the show was intense. I can't recall all of the names of the songs, but if they put this show on again I am definitely going to be there to feel that groove. Here's what I can recall: With their song "Lightbubble", they led us on a tour of the early universe, from the formation of atoms to the first quasars and superclusters, to the formations of galaxies, leading us to our own Local Group and spiraling us into the Milky Way Galaxy (with sounds and visuals that made my head spin in a psychedelic, thought-provoking way). Their second movement was a journey into our solar system and toward our sol. They brought us into a vibe with their third song, set to a sweet African sound, while they led us through the development and evolution of life on Earth, leading us to explore fractals both in nature and produced by mathematical modeling. They took us out with a trip to Saturn's large moon, Titan, in a song they called "Titan Haze". The music was almost a call for action; a call to learn about Titan and to be mystified by the processes occurring on that moon. I walked out of the show feeling inspired by the eclectic mix of thought and feeling.
Update: 6 March 2015
I recently wrote about a concept design for a submarine to explore the lakes of Titan. Check out that post here:
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