A Universe of the sounds
When astronomers, sound designers and psychologists work together, what is the outcome? A Universe of sounds! Through a multi-voice dialogue, we will tell you how we can give sounds to a Cosmos which would otherwise remain silent. In this way, we can find new tools for research, and make Astronomy accessible to everyone, even those who are visually impaired, and we can tell the Universe in a more engaging and amusing way … having fun ourselves.
Sense involved
Speakers
Anita Zanella obtained her PhD in Astrophysics at the Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (Paris, France) and later worked as a researcher at the European Southern Observatory in Germany and in Chile. Since 2019, Anita has worked at INAF as a researcher. Anita studies galaxy formation and evolution in time, giving life to the multitude of shapes and colours which we observe today. Anita Zanella is also an enthusiast of scientific popularization, and took part in and organized several festivals and International events in Italy, France and Germany.
Massimo Grassi holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Padua. He carried out the post-doctoral period at the University of Udine and as a visiting scientist and Marie Curie fellow at the University of Sussex. From 2006 to 2018 he was a researcher at the University of Padua and since 2018 he has been an associate professor at the same university. He deals with auditory perception, psychology of music and the possible applications of these in everyday life. He has been coordinator of the experimental section of the Italian Association of Psychology and is a member of the steering committee of the Italian Reproducibility Network. He has organized many scientific dissemination events including, recently, the art exhibition "L'occhio in gioco" at the Palazzo del Monte di Pietà in Padua.
Sara Lenzi is sound designer and researcher at the Critical Alarms Lab of the TU Delft University, in the Netherlands.
Her main area of research is data sonification. Together with Paolo Ciuccarelli you founded the Data Sonification Archive. Data Sonification Archive.
Stefano Delle Monache is a researcher at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of the Delft University of Technology, where he deals with practices, methods and forms of representation of sound-driven design.
After studying at the Electronic Music School of the G. Verdi Conservatory of Como (2008), he obtained his PhD in Design at the IUAV University of Venice (2012). In 2020 he obtained the Marie Skłodowska-Curie scholarship with the project PADS - Participatory Designing with Sound.
He carries out consultancy and artistic-musical activities to preserve his spaces of freedom.