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**Robert Blatt** and **Michael Winter's** *Harmonie Universelle* reimagines the history of acoustics as a history of experimental music by considering the experiments, technologies, and observations of early acousticians as modes of composition, instrumentation, and listening. Experiments investigating sonic characteristics such as speed of sound, interference patterns, and resonance become musical material. Scientific instruments such as sirens and tuning forks become musical instruments. And texts and images by Hermann Helmholtz, John Tyndall, Sophie Germain, Ernst Chladni, Jules Lissajous, Marin Mersenne, and Leonhard Euler, among others, are read and projected as artistic observations and reflections that occupy a liminal, transitory space between the qualitative and the quantitative. Within a performance-installation environment, these elements come together in an experimental tracing of the history of acoustics as music.
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