Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart will introduce a preview of this magnificent work at the SETI Institute’s first annual SETIcon on August 13, 2010 at 8:00pm at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara.

Modern technology allows us to capture or imagine them– electric, atomic, magnetic, galactic – and gives us a way to translate these vibrations into sounds which we can hear. Our radio telescopes have recorded the song of the pulsar; our mathematicians have modeled the domain of the Big Bang.

Initially called the Universe of Sound, SETI Institute’s Dr. Jill Tarter helped Mickey Hart gather together the first 23 of these magnificent, even dangerous space creatures, and he introduced them, one per night, as the Dead toured the country in the spring of 2009.

After the tour, Hart continued to gather data from diverse astrophysical sources and detectors, from supernova to cosmic microwaves to the Crab Nebula. With help from Nobel Laureate George Smoot, from the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Rhythms of the Universe represents a collaboration where science meets art.

Powered by Meyer Sound, this audio visual presentation becomes a sonic wonder, from the Big Bang onwards through galaxy and star formation up until modern time.

This event is free for all SETIcon ticket holders.  Online RSVP has ENDED.  Onsite admission to this event is first come first serve.  Simply arrive at the convention on Friday beginning at 1 PM to collect your badge and we will issue passes for this event as they remain.