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In honor of Miami Beach’s centennial anniversary, 60 FIU physics students participated in a high-energy performance starring FIU astrophysicist Fiorella Terenzi earlier this week.
Terenzi’s work bridges science and the arts using music from the sounds of outer space. “Let’s Get Astrophysical,” featured music, dance, acrobatics and a laser light show at the festival main stage. It also included a countdown of the top-15 stellar-themed pop songs, from various artists such as Muse, One Republic, Oasis, Incubus, Fallout Boys, Katy Perry, Hardwell and Daft Punk.
When Fiorella Terenzi transformed a Milan fashion show into an astronomical marvel, she did not anticipate the impact it would have on the fashion industry.
Just seven months after Italian designer Ermenegildo Zegna debuted its fall-winter collection to the sights and sounds of space with the help of Terenzi, the FIU physicist has been tapped to give a presentation about the collaboration during The New York Times International Luxury Conference later this year.
“When you are engaged on multiple aesthetic levels, learning finds an emotional home, and it is remembered forever, Terenzi said. “Life imitates art, and art imitates science. It is high time to use science to empower the aesthetic brain processes — left and right brain combined in tempo.”
A pioneer in the field of acoustic astronomy, Terenzi produced sounds from space that were blended with music from Tchaikosvky for Zegna’s fashion show soundtrack. Models walked in tempo with pulsating stars as animations of space served as the visual backdrop. While her specialty is sound, Terenzi also consulted on the animations, intertwining glamor and science in a one-of-a-kind display.