Australian Youth Orchestra: Beautiful Equations | Digital Stage

Stravinsky, composer of The Rite of Spring and The Firebird, said “The musician should find in mathematics a study as useful to (them) as the learning of another language is to a poet. Mathematics swims seductively just below the surface”. Internationally acclaimed saxophone virtuoso Jonathan Radford and Prof. Yang-Hui He, a Fellow at the London Institute specialising in AI-guided mathematics, take students on an immersive journey through sound and space, communicating complex mathematics to non-specialist audiences in an interactive performance featuring the Australian premiere of award-winning composer, Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Three Mathematical Diversions. Featuring the talented young musicians of the Australian Youth Orchestra’s Momentum Ensemble, students will develop an appreciation of equations which, like great art or music, can be considered beautiful and can help us in finding the ‘Theory of Everything’. World Science Festival Brisbane presented by Queensland Museum. QPAC is Education Partner of the World Science Festival Brisbane. Filmed on Yuggera and Turrbal Country. Playhouse, QPAC.