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The University of Tampa will present an artistic performance exploring space-time travel at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, and Saturday, Dec. 10, at the Sykes Plaza on the UT campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Using the new Susan and John Sykes Ars Sonora® musical sculpture as a theoretical conduit for space-time travel, students from the Department of Art and Design and the Department of Music’s Interactive Arts Ensemble will collaborate and assist Gabe Michael Kenney, visiting researcher and artist, with a performative sound experiment. Harnessing sound waves' potential for carrying mass, Kenney will attempt to demonstrate space-time travel by examining contrasting theories of relativity and quantum physics to a watching public.
“The recently completed Ars Sonora has been a catalyst for creativity, inspiring both the musical and visual elements for the event,” said Bradford Blackburn, director of music technology and composition and associate professor of music.
Music students will perform as a virtual/electroacoustic kalimba ensemble and stage quantum ritual theater in support of the space-time travel experiment. Joshua Cessna, Ars Sonora curator and UT staff pianist, will play with the ensemble. Simultaneously, student researchers from the Department of Art and Design will present visual installations that explore the principles of cymatics, simulation theory and forms of photographic abstraction, which will visually augment the Ars Sonora portal’s theoretical principles.
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