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Dr. Fiorella Terenzi
Dr. Fiorella Terenzi
Heavenly Knowledge by Dr. Terenzi Described by Dennis Miller as "a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna", astrophysicist, author, and musician Dr. Fiorella Terenzi received her doctorate in physics from the University of Milan, has studied opera and composition at Conservatory G. Verdi, Corsi Popolari and taught mathematics and physics at Liceo Scientifico, Milan.

In research at the Computer Audio Research Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, she developed techniques to convert radio waves from galaxies into sound - released by Island Records on her acclaimed CD "Music from the Galaxies". Her March `98 Avon hardcover "Heavenly Knowledge" explores astronomy as a metaphor for human relationships and humanity's place in the universe. Media coverage includes ABC Radio, NPR Talk of The Nation, BBC Radio, Women Outside magazine and The Sci-Fi Channel.

In September '98 Sperling- Kupfer releases the Italian translation "Music Dalle Stelle", bundled with the music CD "Galactically Yours", and Goldmann/ Bertelsmann releases the German translation "Der Kosmos ist weiblich". The European editions are presold international bestsellers. North American paperback release is in April '99.

Dr. Terenzi's best-selling CD-ROM "Invisible Universe" (The Voyager Company) blends astronomy and music into a uniquely entertaining and enlightening voyage through the stars and won the Sigcat Award for "Most Creative Application of Multimedia in Higher and Adult Education".

Her songs are featured on the Billboard Top 20 Music Video "The Gate to the Mind's Eye" with Thomas Dolby and on "Beyond Life", Mercury Records' dance/trance CD and video tribute to Dr. Timothy Leary. She has performed and/or recorded with Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, and Peter Lord and Jeffrey Smith.

The Gate to the Mind's Eye
Dr. Terenzi is an Apple Computer AppleMaster and has appeared with comedian Sinbad, author Douglas Adams, dancer Gregory Hines, and photographer Howard Bingham.

She is the first person to be a member of both the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (Grammy Awards) and the American Astronomical Society.

She has appeared on CNN and in People, Time, Glamour, The Wall Street Journal, and Mondo 2000 (cover). In lectures at UCSD, Stanford, and MIT, in performances and on television in the US, Europe, and Japan, Dr. Terenzi has combined science and art to awaken people to the wonders of the universe around them.

Dr. Terenzi lives in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami.

The press says...

"Astrophysicist-Musician Uses Galactic Sound to Create Tunes" - Associated Press

"A cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna." - Dennis Miller, "The Dennis Miller Show"

"Look at the stars. Can't you hear them? Now, thanks to Fiorella Terenzi, an astrophysicist and musician, stargazers can peek through a telescope, glance at the Milky Way and listen to the cosmos. ... Initially, Dr. Terenzi kept acoustic astronomy to herself. But now she has turned performer, and Earth people are tuning in." - Wall Street Journal, Marketplace Section front page.

"The source for this sound is a galaxy far, far away. How can we hear music from a galaxy? Well, our interpreter is Italian Astrophysicist Fiorella Terenzi." "So Terenzi the Astrophysicist, who started out trying to find another way to classify celestial objects, is also Terenzi the musician, with an album called Music from the Galaxies and performance at observatories and planetariums and on TV." - CNN, "Future Watch.

"What's 180 million light years away and has a beat you can dance to?" "Forget pop stars. Twenty-eight year-old Dr. Fiorella Terenzi has recorded a whole pop galaxy." - Glamour

"Dr. Fiorella Terenzi has more going for her than just her Madonna-esque mys- tique. ... Music from the Galaxies has thrilled listeners across planet Earth with its strangely sensuous extraterrestrial tonalities." - L.A. Style.

"Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, an Italian astrophysicist, has captured radio waves (a form of light) from a distant galaxy 180 million light years from earth, converted the cosmic waves into sound, and transformed the sound into music." - Griffith Observatory.

"Since the beginning of time artists, poets, and song-writers have used the heavens for inspiration. Now there is a musician who literally composes music that is heaven sent. She is Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, an Astrophysicist with a degree from the University of Milan." "... she has been playing it for audiences around the world. We caught up with the Madonna look-alike at, where else, the base of one of the radio telescopes in NASA's deep space communications complex in California, where she told us why she decided to combine music with science." - NASA Select TV, "NASA Today"

"Let's Get Astrophysical with Doctor Fiorella Terenzi" - MONDO 2000 - cover story

"In a new Island Records CD called Music from the Galaxies, Italian Astro- physicist and composer Fiorella Terenzi has used the most modern radio-tele- scopes and computers to convert the natural radiation from a galaxy designated UGC6697 into the audible range then add instrumental harmonies. A fascinating their largest efforts yet to scour distant galaxies for intelligence on that end." - Newsweek On-Air Radio

To learn more about Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, please visit her web site at www.fiorella.com, or contact Dr. Terenzi by e-mail at fiorella@fiorella.com.

 

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