Waves Passing in the Night: a Conversation on Astrophysics, Harmony, and Boundaries

Please join Chancellor George Blumenthal, three-time Academy Award-winning sound and film editor Walter Murch, three-time author Ren Weschler (Cowell ’74), and astronomer Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz for a conversation on astrophysics, harmony, and boundaries.

Registration required, $10, includes parking in the Performing Arts lot. Students pay no admission fee, please register.

Ren Weschler’s book on Walter Murch, “Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the land of Astrophysics,” releases in January 2017. Murch is a 3-time Academy Award-winning sound and film editor with an interest in astrophysics. As a consummate outsider, Murch had a hard time attracting any sort of comprehensive hearing from professional astrophysicists. However, Murch has made advances that even some of them find intriguing, including a connection between Titius Bode and earlier notions–going back past Kepler and Pythagorus–of musical harmony in the heavens.

“It is controversy that brings science alive.”
– Lee Smolin, theoretical physicis

Brought to you by Cowell College, in partnership with the Institute for Humanities Research, Astronomy & Astrophysics Department, and Film & Digital Media Department.

Questions? Contact Liz Church at [email protected] or (831) 502-8156.