Sonic Acts Festival
dal 20/2/2013 al 23/2/2013
Segnalato da
20/2/2013
Sonic Acts Festival
Different venues, Amsterdam
With The Dark Universe, Sonic Acts celebrates the deeply rooted human desire to occupy ourselves with things we don't know. The arts and sciences have always been at the core of our exploration of the unknown.
The starting point for the theme The Dark Universe are
recent developments in science which suggest that
the world in which we live is more unfamiliar and even
weirder than we have imagined.
Because our senses only
enable us to perceive a fraction of the electromagnetic
spectrum, we have developed an array of instruments
to extend our capabilities and detect radiation across
the entire spectrum, from gamma to radio waves.
Using
the Planck Space Observatory we are now able to study
cosmic background radiation at a very high resolution,
looking back to the birth of the universe. And on 4 July
2012 the Large Hadron Collider detected the ‘missing’
Higgs boson, a fundamental part of the Standard Model
of particle physics.
Still, what these immensely advanced instruments
record is probably only a tiny part of reality. Astronomical
observations from previous decades can only be
explained by postulating the existence of large quantities
of matter and energy that we are unable to see, hear
or measure. Only 4 per cent of the universe is made of
ordinary matter, the other 96 per cent is completely dark
to us.
With The Dark Universe, Sonic Acts celebrates the
deeply rooted human desire to occupy ourselves with
things we don’t know. The arts and sciences have always
been at the core of our exploration of the unknown,
the strange, and the unfamiliar.
For The Dark Universe,
Sonic Acts brings together scientists, artists, theorists,
musicians and composers to explore the boundaries ww
of our knowledge, investigate how to make the invisible
imaginable, learn how to embrace the unknown, and
to guide us through the dark universe.
Press contact:
Jelle Agema
E: jelle@sonicacts.com
T: +31(0) 6 24 781 783
For more info visit: www.sonicacts.com
Sonic Acts
Weteringschans 6-8, Amsterdam