Contact: Chris Thompson Lively at email
About the Program:
The performance invites audience participation in multiple ways: audience members are invited to sing along to songs including "I'm a Body Symphony," "Wonderful Things About Strings" and "No Matter How you Twist it, It's Still a Horn". Audience members participate through demos, question and answer, sing-alongs and "move-alongs" that help demonstrate the science of sound.
After the interactive performance, we will construct simple instruments. Please reserve your place for the event so we can have enough materials: call Passim at 617-492-7679.
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SoundScience was featured on PBS's Curious George as an interstitial in 2005, and was part of the Cambridge Science Festival in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.
About the Program Developers/Presenters:
Chris & Meredith Thompson are "powerful performers with a natural warmth for the live concert stage" writes Tom Lounges in the Beat. Best known for the unique blend of their nearly identical voices, the Thompsons weave vocals, flute, guitar and percussion together creating a sound that is genuine, beautiful, and moving.
Chris & Meredith Thompson have performed at festivals such as the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Boston Folk Festival, and the Clearwater Hudson Revival. They have released 7CDs and performed across the U.S.
Education Background:
Christina Thompson Lively achieved her bachelor of science at Cornell University, and her Master of Education at Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She is a Research Associate at the Harvard School of Public Health center for Continuing Professional Education, where she helps research and develop curricula for the Forces of Change program. She has volunteered in science classrooms at 5 different schools in the Boston area.
SoundScience Fun! the album
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SoundScience Fun! is an interactive sing along performance designed to explore the science of sound through the magic of music. Together we sing about strings, have a percussion discussion ride a sound wave and have fun!
The Gallery of Found Sound
SHOWS
Saturday April 28, 2011 3:30pm
See SoundScience Fun! live at
Club Passim as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.
Chris & Meredith return to the Culture for Kids program with their interactive, informative and fun program SoundScience Fun! program. Are you curious about sound and music? We welcome all ages to learn, sing, move and explore the science of sound in this lively, interactive performance. Through demonstrations and songs, we will cook up a recipe for sound, ride a sound wave, hum about drums, sing about strings, and have fun!
Ever wonder why your guitar gently weeps? Find out when it spills its guts at the "Guitar Guts" portion of the Gallery of Found Sound. All ages are welcome to explore how sounds are created by acoustic instruments like the guitar and household implements like spoons, keys, pots and pans, pipes and other found sound at this science focused traveling exhibit at the landmark Passim Arts Center (47 Palmer St, Cambridge MA). Join us for the SoundScience Fun! show on Sat May 7, 3:30pm to explore this traveling exhibit and learn even more about what we have found about sound. We invite you to look (and listen) around the Gallery of Found Sound!
Contact Chris Thompson at this email. We can provide a amplification if needed.
Chris can perform SoundScience Fun! solo as well.
We have performed SoundScience Fun! at schools, libraries, science museums, outdoor concert series and music venues throughout the United States. Notable venues include the MIT Museum, the Cambridge Science Festival, Club Passim's Culture for Kids Program and the Carnegie Science Museum. The program is very well received by children and adults alike.
Performance Background:
Meredith Thompson Knight majored in Chemistry and Education at Cornell University, and achieved her Master of Education from Tufts University. Her work beyond music involves working with teachers to improve science education for elementary school children. She is currently the Education Outreach Coordinator for the David Walt lab at Tufts University. Read and article about work from an outreach grant she wrote at Tufts. Previously she has worked as the Research coordinator at the Boston Museum of Science, with the Tufts Engineering Initiative, and as the Women in Science and Engineering program coordinator at StonyBrook University.
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