BIG
BANG
Project Research
& Creation
Big
Bang is a new work of concert theater for narrator,
live musical ensemble and projections, written and directed by composer/performer
Patrick Grant.
This work is the result of a collaboration between the composer and astronomer
Charles Liu
with input from physicist Brian
Schwartz.
These pages are meant to document the creation and resultant
performance of this piece.
The piece tells the story of the creation of our Universe as best as we understand it today. It is narrated by a central character known as The Astronomer. This role will be performed by Charles Liu and like all astronomers do, in order to understand what happened at the beginning, he will "run the film in reverse," that is, the story starts out in our present day and moves backwards to, quite literally, the creation of Time.
Projections of stellar bodies, scientific diagrams and art will add a visual component to the work.
Big
Bang will have its premiere at the CUNY Graduate
Center in NYC on Monday, May 15 at 6:00 PM. There will be another
performance at THEATERLAB on Sunday, May
21 at 4:30 PM with yet another performance, again at CUNY, as part of The
26th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics
on Tuesday, June 27at 5:00 PM.
More info at www.strangemusic.com
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1.
Initial Notes with Astronomer Charles Liu
2. Conversation with Physicist Brian Schwartz
3. Conversation with Astronomer Charles Liu
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The
Powers of Ten
Big Bang
Timeline (Text)
Big
Bang Timeline
(Graphical)
Big
Bang and the Fundamental Forces
"Eureka"
- a Cosmological Essay by E. A. Poe
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Creation
of the Narrative
BIG
BANG SCRIPT
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This
work was commissioned by the CUNY Graduate Center Science & the Arts performance
series, an initiative of the Science Outreach Series, presenting programs in theatre,
art, music, and dance that bridge the worlds of art and science. Most programs
are free, but please reserve your seats in advance by phone or email. Please refer
to the reservation number listed with the event. Supported in part by the National
Science Foundation and the Lounsbery Foundation..
All events are held
at The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave (at 34th Street)
For further information
on Science & the Arts please contact:
Brian Schwartz, Director, Science
and the Arts, (212) 817-7521, bschwartz@gc.cuny.edu
Adrienne Klein, Co-Director,
Science and the Arts, (212) 817-7522, aklein@gc.cuny.edu
Web site: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/sciart/