SoundWaves

Explore how trends, plans, viewpoints, projects, materials, and sounds develop. Where we are and where we might be headed in the future.In the final chapter of the Development series, SoundWaves asks: Why are eggs so expensive? How do you create a video game? How do plants respond to climate change? How do you tell a short story in music?Andrew Stevens Economics of AgricultureGary Dahl, Computer SciencesJack Williams, GeographyChristopher Taylor, piano, MusicDaniel Grabois, MusicSoundWaves combines scientific lectures about the world with live classical music performances. Each event revolves around a theme, exploring it first from many scientific angles and then through the [...]

This academic year, SoundWaves is exploring scales. Join us for this first edition diving into the atomic scale - and Klezmer scales!Gaze into the world of the unimaginably small with an evening exploring the atomic scale. What is quantum computing and how does it work? How do atoms in metals organize themselves into hierarchies? As part of Klez Fest Midwest, this special SoundWaves event will feature more live music than ever, with the duo of Krakauer & Tagg, featuring brilliant klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer and pianist Kathleen Tagg, performing and explaining what gives klezmer music its characteristic style and sound (it’s [...]

This academic year, SoundWaves is exploring scales. In this second edition, we will be zooming in on the micro scale!Our second SoundWaves event of the season explores the Micro Scale, looking at things that are very small in size. What is a microbiome? What’s going on in the Earth’s water? What is microeconomics? What happens when you look at rhythm and pitch on a micro scale? Find out at SoundWaves.

This academic year, SoundWaves is exploring scales. In this second edition, we will be zooming out to the macro scale!

This academic year, SoundWaves is exploring scales. In this final edition, we will be zooming WAY out to the Astronomical scale!