
When you can see the sun, you see it and you can hear it, and that brings it right on home. You see the Milky Way, you can hear the Milky Way.

So when you see a star, you can hear a star. … Anything that moves has two components: it has a light, and it has a sound," Hart said. "You have a light, you change the form, you sonify it. It’s what’s called sonification, you change it into sound. “That’s all that interests me: the sound and the rhythm. Hart has consistently used his work to create a unified field comprised of cosmic space, the human brain and music from around the world - all centered on the universal concept of rhythm. This museum happening is just the latest in a body of work that's earned Hart two Grammy Awards for his solo albums, membership in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the Grateful Dead and collaborations with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Museum guests begin with a visit “Our Senses: An Immersive Experience,” with a custom soundscape comprised of samples from Hart’s 2017 album “RAMU.”įESTIVAL SCENE: Sea. The experience is also an educational one throughout.

During just under an hour of music, viewers vault through space and time into the deepest corners of Hart's own brain. It is, therefore, uniquely suited for "Musica Universalis" and its singularly enrapturing journey through outer and inner space. Hart’s signature sound achieved via his Pythagorean Monochord is a bone-shaking, consciousness-expanding drone sprinkled with echoes of eternity. The show features Hart performing with his Pythagorean Monochord instrument, also known as “The Beam,” to original visualizations designed by Carter Emmart, director of Astrovisualization at the museum. It's all happening Friday, April 13, and Saturday, April 14 in the museum’s Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space. This weekend, Grammy-winning Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart presents “Musica Universalis: The Greatest Story Ever Told" at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. If you need a soundtrack to life, the universe and everything, it only stands to reason that it would come from the world of the Grateful Dead.

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