Orkney-based accordionist Karen Tweed and Edinburgh-based quantum physicist and pianist Erika Andersson present a performance of music inspired by quantum physics. They share a passion and fascination for music, art, textiles and science and explore topics from entanglement to quantum computers. In each case the music expresses the essence of the concept.
A concert of music to celebrate a great discovery and the island where it happened a century ago. Helgoland Museum director Dr Simone Arnhold, tells the story, with music from Orkney Camerata conducted by Iain Campbell; the Orkney Chamber Choir conducted by Robert Hersey; Hannah Firth (soprano) and Iain Campbell (piano). There is Haydn, Grieg, Elgar and Mogens Pedersøn; Edward Bairstow, Hindemith, Nielsen and Ronald Binge – and the world premiere of a new work by George McPhee in memory of the physicist Peter Higgs and his love of hillwalking and music.
Poet Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan joins physicist Prof. James Millen on a journey of exploration into the quantum world. “Art and science are just different languages trying to understand the what, the why, and the how in everything around us."
