Past Exhibitions 2013
Elevator Music 24
Laurie Spiegel: Harmonices Mundi
Installation view, Laurie Spiegel: Harmonices Mundi, Tang Teaching Museum, 2013
Explanation of the Golden Record diagram, courtesy of NASA and Laurie Speigel.
Installation view, Laurie Spiegel – Harmonices Mundi, Tang Teaching Museum, 2013
Image of the Voyager Golden Record, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Installation view, Laurie Spiegel – Harmonices Mundi, Tang Teaching Museum, 2013
Installation view, Laurie Spiegel – Harmonices Mundi, Tang Teaching Museum, 2013
Planet pitch notation courtesy of Laurie Spiegel.
Elevator Music 24 presents the 1977 composition Harmonices Mundi, by composer, multi-instrumentalist and software developer Laurie Spiegel (b. 1945, Chicago). Harmonices Mundi, or “The Harmony of the World” employs the eponymous text by sixteenth-century astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler that explains planetary motion as approximate to musical harmony. Spiegel’s sonification of Kepler’s theory was famously chosen by Carl Sagan as the open track for the golden record affixed to the NASA Voyager spacecrafts launched in 1977.
Currently Voyager 1 has traveled farther than any other manmade object sent from Earth, and could the first manmade object to leave the solar system.
Exhibition Name
Elevator Music 24
Laurie Spiegel: Harmonices Mundi
Laurie Spiegel: Harmonices Mundi
Exhibition Type
Elevator Music Series
Solo Exhibitions
Place
Elevator
Dates
May 25, 2013 - Sep 29, 2013
Curators
Elevator Music 24: Laurie Spiegel — Harmonices Mundi was curated by Head Designer and Media Specialist Patrick O’Rourke in collaboration with the artist.
Artists
Laurie Spiegel