Sónar+D 2017 opening act defies every format known to bring to the audience a unique experience half-way between a lecture and an audiovisual performance.

Entropy is a transdisciplinary project that puts scientists, musicians, digital artists and creative coders to collaborate and explore scientific storytelling, developing new tools for scientific data visualization, help science tell its stories, and open new ways for research.

On stage, Entropy is an immersive cosmic journey through space and time, that tells the story of the universe and its stars and galaxies, starting from the very beginning until its ultimate death.    

Entropy is a scientific lecture by the astronomer and cosmologist Dr. Dida Markovic, featuring music composed and performed live by electronic music pioneers Dopplereffekt, and visualizations of real astronomical data, staged by the digital arts label Antivj in collaboration with a group of creative coders led by Elie Zananiri and Arturo Castro that have developed a set of open-source tools for data visualization.

In Entropy, science, code, visuals and sound truly work together on a project where the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts.

Credits:

Science: Dr.Dida Markovic

Music: Dopplereffekt 

Scenography: Yannick Jacquet 

Software: Elie Zananiri, Arturo Castro

Producer: Nicolas Boritch

Dramaturgy: Marie Lambert

Co-producers: Antivj, TodaysArt 

Associate Producers: Tim Terpstra, Julien Taib

Supported by: Science and Technolgogy Facilities, Council Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles, Arcadi, Antivj