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Astrophysicist, Recording Artist, and now Author Dr. Fiorella Terenzi
will be speaking in New York in the Hayden Distinguished Author Lecture
Series at the American Museum of Natural History, Kaufman Theater, on 
Wednesday April 29, 7:30pm.  81st St. at Central Park West, tickets 
212.769.5699.

Dennis Miller described her as "a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna".
Dr. Terenzi performed the first experiment translating radio waves from
space into sound, to see if the alternative representation could provide
new insights.   Island Records released the results of the doctoral
research
she did at the UCSD Computer Audio Research Laboratory on a CD
"Music from the Galaxies". 

She just released a book  "Heavenly Knowledge" (Amazon or 
www.AvonBooks.com) which is a mix of  astronomy-related topics and 
personal insights about how studying the universe helps her understand 
people.  I put a couple of quotes from last week's book-signing flyer,
below.

She also has a CD-ROM with Voyager, "Invisible Universe", about the
universe beyond human sight - in infrared, radio, x-ray, etc.   Maybe
200 pages of text plus lots of images, video of Dr. Terenzi, music, etc.
 I'd love to see this used  for a high school/college level general ed 
course,  though at her book-signing I saw 10 or 12 year old kids as well 
as adults buying it. 

With all this stuff and things like a Billboard Top 20 long-form video 
soundtrack with Thomas Dolby,  lectures at Stanford and MIT, and 
performances in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan and coverage from 
NASA TV and NPR Science Friday to full-pages in People, Time, 
Glamour, the cover of Mondo 2000, and the Wall Street Journal,
IEEE Spectrum, CNN, BBC, Dennis Miller, etc. she is pretty popular.
Her fans include Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, Wendy Carlos,
astronaut Dick Gordon, Timothy Leary, John Perry Barlow, etc. 
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle both attended her book party two weeks
ago.  She and Carl Sagan met at the SETI HRMS "launch" event.
She is a member of both the National Academy of Recording Arts &
 Sciences (Grammy Awards) and the American Astronomical
Society, and is Apple Computer AppleMaster.

I think the event at the Hayden will be a lecture / demonstration more
than 
the performances that she did at Griffith Observatory, Morrison
Planetarium,
and elsewhere, in part because the Hayden is being refurbished so this
is
just in a lecture hall.  But it should still be pretty interesting and
have at least 
sounds from space, music, and video in addition to the talk.  Her fairly
simple 
presentation and book-signing at Barnes & Noble in Los Angeles last week 
was pretty cool and *very* well attended - a standing room only capacity 
crowd. 

If you go, let us know how it was.

-David

Cornell Daily Sun
... Fiorella is the MTV generation's alternative to Mr. Wizard ... 
In "Heavenly Knowledge" she draws from her vast background and 
personal experience to explore the universe and our place amongst 
the stars...

Amazon.com
In this hip, metaphysical take on astronomy from the world's only 
internationally known astrophysicist/rock star, Dr. Terenzi brings 
to life a sensual universe

Wireless Radio Network
Four and a half stars.