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Music in space: Fiori Anastasia Metallinou at TEDxUniversityofPiraeus

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Fiori Anastasia Metallinou manages to combine her two passions, Astronomy and Music, creating music from space with the composer of electronic music Antoni Palaska. Our planet is a natural source of radio waves that surround us every moment. The radio phonic waves, however, can be converted into audio so we can hear sounds called "Sounds of Earth". In outer space, outside our solar system, we meet the rapidly rotating neutron stars, the pulsars. The pulsars are very strong sources of radio signals, which are converted to acoustic so we can listen to the "sounds" they produce. Pythagoras (6th century BC.) Greek philosopher, mathematician and music theorist was the first who wanted to combine Astronomy with Music and Philosophy and talked about the "Music of the Spheres." Plato, as a follower of the Pythagorean philosophy, considered Astronomy and Music sciences with a lot of commons. Today, 2500 years later, modern astronomers record sounds from space. Sounds of the Universe have in common with the music they were writing the pioneers of electronic music since 1950. Fiori says, "Listening to these sounds, I felt that the universe is something alive".


About Fiori Anastasia Metallinou 
Dr Fiori-Anastasia Metallinou is a Postdoctoral Researcher at NOA/IAASARS. She received her M.Sc. degree in Atmospheric and Environmental Physics from the Aristotle University, Thessaloniki and her Ph.D in "Development and Recovery of Magnetic Storms in Geospace". 
Her research interests are focused on simulations of ion acceleration in the earth's magnetosphere during magnetic storms. She received her diploma in classical singing. She organizes public outreach activities referring to Astronomy (e.g. lectures, article publishing). Her original idea regards to the initiation of musical nights that combine astronomy with poetry and music.


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