OPEN AIR LECTURES IN LABORATORIA ART&SCIENCE SPACE
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH

SKY SECRETS AND THE LATEST DISCOVERIES OF ASTRONOMERS

EVENT DATE AND LOCATION

03.07.2009 at 9 pm
LAB DVOR, 3 Obukha per.

Prof. Anatoly CHEREPASCHUK, academician, director of Sternberg Astronomy Institute (Moscow)

This summer you can enjoy the sophisticated and unique CLOUD HARP installation by Nicolas Reeves (Canada). The instrument is the result of a research in electronics, acoustics, and programming. It is a physical sculpture containing a technological system that, by means of an infrared laser beam 8 kilometers high, reads the structure of clouds and then transforms this reading into musical sequences. Musical sequences by CLOUD HARP gives a new sensation of sky, now it can be experienced and understood not only visually but also aurally.

For fresh «cloudists» LABORATORIA together with scientists, whose professional experience is connected with sky and clouds – astronomers, meteorologists, and artists and paragliders have created a special exposition the CLOUD ATLAS. Instructions by Cloud Commission.Members of Cloud Commission and special guests will tell us about sky secrets and discoveries.

Media partner – "Theory and practice of Moscow".