Octave of Light, by David Ibbett, Beth Sterling

Octave of Light

by David Ibbett, Beth Sterling

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www.octaveoflight.com

Over 4,000 exoplanets have been discovered - are any home to life?

Composer David Ibbett explores this crucial question in his debut album, Octave of Light, featuring soprano Beth Sterling, violinist Amelia Sie, and the composer on piano/electronics.

This one of a kind project is a musical celebration of exoplanet science, created in collaboration with Roy Gould of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Too small to be seen directly, most exoplanets are detected as shadows across their parent star. By analyzing these shadows, David has sonified (light->sound) their spectra into a musical language of molecules and exoplanets.

Will these chemical combinations be the key to discovering life on another world?

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released November 12, 2020

Music by David Ibbett

Soprano - Beth Sterling, Violin - Amelia Sie
Piano/Electronics - David Ibbett

Science by Roy Gould, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Animations by the Charles Hayden Planetarium, Boston Museum of Science

Art by Marlena Bocian Hewitt

Producer - David Ibbett, Associate Producer - Beth Sterling

Mastered by Bob Ludwig

Recorded at Falcetti Pianos

Eartesters - Micah Brown, Corinne Decost, Maya Rakoczy, Alexey Veraksa

Presented by Multiverse Concert Series

Funded on Kickstarter

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David Ibbett Boston, Massachusetts

David Ibbett, Ph.D. is a composer, educator, and musical advocate for science. Based in Boston, he directs the Multiverse Concert Seriesand is the first Guest Composer at Fermilab. Musical strands are met with inspiration from the work of scientists: sonified data, musical metaphors for scientific concepts, and experimental sound and images from contemporary research. ... more

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