#242: Making Music with Black Holes - Valery Vermeulen

Nov 10, 2021

Valery Vermeulen is a Belgian mathematician, lecturer, data analyst, and electronic musician. His new album, Mikromedas, was made using data from black holes.

Valery and I had a great conversation about his new album and finding creative ways to create music. We spend some time discussing the nature of the universe and black holes, and it all relates back to making music. This is a deep and sometimes dense conversation that left me feeling fascinated and inspired.

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Show Notes:

Valery Vermeulen Website and Socials:

• https://www.valeryvermeulen.net/
• https://www.instagram.com/valeryvermeulen.studio/ : Instagram
• https://www.facebook.com/valeryvermeulen.studio : artist FB page

Mikromedas:

• https://www.valeryvermeulen.net/works/mikromedas/ :  webpage Mikromedas project
• https://ashinternational.bandcamp.com/album/mikromedas-ads-cft-001 : bandcamp page for pre order/order album Mikromedas AdS/CFT 001
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSSBuKF5_Dk : preview of album Mikromedas AdS/CFT 001 and the AV live show 

Teaching:

• https://www.facebook.com/centermcs : FB page of Center-MCS, the organization under which Valery gives various online workshops and masterclasses on sound synthesis, sound design and electronic music production
• https://www.valeryvermeulen.net/center-mcs/ : webpage of Center-MCS

Other works:

• https://www.valeryvermeulen.net/works/emo-synth/ : EMO-Synth project on music, AI and biofeedback
• https://www.valeryvermeulen.net/works/krystalball/ : Krystal Ball project on using mathematical models from Wall Street to produce electronic music

Valery would like to credit: 

The scientific aspect of Mikromedas AdS/CFT 001 was realized in collaboration with several academic partners including the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Alabama University (US), the Alabama Holography Research Group (US), the Institute for Theoretical Physics of KU Leuven (BE), the Centre for Mathematical Plasma Astrophysics of KULeuven (BE), the Department of Mathematics of the University of Antwerp (BE), quantum cosmologist Prof. Dr. Thomas Hertog, Prof. Dr. Matthias Kaminski, Dr. Casey Cartwright, Dr. Ileyk El Mellah, Dr. Bart Ripperda, Dr. Fabio Bacchini and Prof. Dr. David Eelbode.

 

The realization of Mikromedas AdS/CFT 001 was made possible via a co-production with Concertgebouw Brugge (BE) and Baltan Laboratories (NL).

 

References with respect to data used for the realisation of the Mikromedas AdS/CFT 001:

 

https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00986 Montreal White Dwarf Data base

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04831 SXS Gravitational Waveform Database

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11507 Cartwright, C., Kaminski, M. Correlations far from equilibrium in charged strongly coupled fluids subjected to a strong magnetic field. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 72 (2019)

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