Exo
planetary
In October 2019, Multiverse Collaborated with Integral Steps and the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to produce Exoplanetary: a Discovery Day of music, science and movement with activities for the whole family!.
Over the course of the day, we hosted:
All Planets Great and Small
Using music, movement, imagination, and discovery-based learning, students swing and skip in low gravity, orbit around distant stars, and experience music joyfully from the inside out. Directed by Young Audiences Director, Weronika Balewski.
Exoplanetary Crafts
Making exoplanet systems from real science data combined with craft materials!
Concert: Shadows of Exoplanets
A concert of music and science celebrating NASA-Smithsonian's Spectrum Lab website, in collaboration with Roy Gould of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Dr. Gould gave talks on the latest research on exoplanets and the incredible detective work used to reveal their presence as shadows cast upon distant stars.
Musical performances featured Marvento Duo:
and works by David Ibbett from his upcoming Octave of Light project:
Water Romanza by David Ibbett
“On Earth, water is part of the intricate ballet of life and climate, and yet so far, we know of no other water involved in such a dance. The light spectra of distant worlds have revealed water in its frozen, liquid and gaseous states, but so far all is lifeless: stagnant, dead. Compared with the other elements, is water special, and what does it take for it to spring to life so dramatically? Water Romanza is composed from the point of view of water spread throughout the universe - lying dormant, striving for life.”
Weronika Balewski is a flutist, Dalcroze & Integrative educator, and arts leader. She teaches flute lessons and piano lessons in her private studio, and music and movement Dalcroze classes throughout the Boston area. She performs with Marvento Duo, Multiverse Concert Series, and Brookline Symphony Orchestra, and co-founded the Virtual Dalcroze Meet-Up.