Washington, 16 feb ( EFE).- the beauty of a supernova is imperceptible to the human eye, but the work of the Puerto Rican fotoastrónomo José Francisco Salgado not only about the cosmos, but rather makes it a Symphony that catches the Viewer on behalf of science.
Salgado, astronomer by profession and enthusiast of the Visual Arts, has created a series of videomontajes, photographs and symphonic film that runs United States, Europe and Latin America “with the Mission of communicating science through art”.
“The aim is to awaken an interest so (attendees) to learn more about science themselves, to take a science book when they return home, visitors to the Museum have in their city…”, said in an interview with Efe.
Fond of photography, began to develop teaching materials with your own images to explain the concepts taught in a class on astronomy at a University of Chicago adult.
“I was explaining the night sky, ancient observatories, it was a way of keeping them alert, interested in the concepts” and hence the idea of doing something that could reach more people.
Salgado, who now works at the Planetarium in Chicago, created in 2010 the Foundation kv265.org, which organizes events, lectures, concerts, exhibitions and distributes educational material “combining science and art to reach a much broader audience”.
One of their most popular projects are the Symphonic films. Accompanied by an orchestra live, Salgado briefly explains to the public events will be on a screen in which it seems that the stars move to the rhythm of the music.
Is of “use the Visual Arts as a hook to draw the attention of the public and once I have their attention can communicate something science”.
Among the Favorites of the public is the Assembly prepared for Gustav Holst’s “the planets” suite, but also the film “Moonrise”, dedicated to the fascination of the man with the Moon, with music by Maurice Ravel, and “Over the beautiful blue planet”, a accompanying melodies by Johann Strauss.
But his teaching is not elitist, also performed these concerts with students, who are fascinated by these jumping stars who rotate at high speed around the planet and seem to dance to the beat of the notes.
“Young people like electronic devices, if you present the scientific material in this way, if you present them the possibilities of that there is not only the pure science, but it also covers other fields such as technology, photography, edit movies, you can reach younger”.
Salgado calls for multidisciplinary work and inculcated that if you like several disciplines not focus only on one thing, but you can find ways to combine them.
He it had clear and since childhood I always wanted to be astronomer: “in third grade I found a book about the first man on the Moon and it fascinated me and never changed the opinion”.
In adolescence began with photography and subsequently sparked his interest in music. Plays electric bass and confesses that his college years had a rock band.
In 2010 partnered with Tom Bailey, who was leader of the band Thompson Twins, and put more pop music to a multimedia project which has as a theme the world of physics under the title “Sidereal Motion”.
In the future you would like to more work with Latin America when the Foundation has set in, to reach more children and “awaken the interest of the people to learn in different disciplines”.
Space symphonies of Salgado as well as explore the pÃas have also traveled to Canada, Chile, Italy, and Spain, where he hopes to return next spring to the town of Valencia.
José Francisco Salgado, astronomer by profession and the Visual Arts enthusiast, has created a series of videomontajes, photographs and symphonic film that runs United States, Europe and Latin America “with the Mission of communicating science through art”. EFE/file
