Discover Science Through Music
Multiverse Concert Series is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization
Black Hole Symphony at the Charles Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Science Boston
Have you ever wondered what science sounds like? Join our team of scientists, artists and musicians to explore possible worlds through immersive multimedia concerts.
Multiverse Concerts weave together musical performances, engaging talks, immersive visuals and surround sound electronics in an inspirational experience for a live audience.
We believe that together, the combined insights of artists and scientists from different disciplines can reveal the world in its fullest sense - immersing both the mind and emotions in a field of research. Cosmology can be illuminated through paintings that translate unimaginable scales to present human experience, the motions of living cells can inspire a ballet, and the plight of coral reefs brought home by elegies for lost biodiversity.
Multiverse Players at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
Multiverse at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC
MISSION
Reef Music: Dr. Sarah Davies of BU Marine Biology
Multiverse concerts weave together live music, lecture presentations, visual art, 3D surround sound and live science demonstrations as cohesive, immersive and inspirational experiences for our audiences.
We believe that scientific discovery should do more than expand what we know. Discoveries can change how we see ourselves: where we come from, what we value, what we find beautiful, and what kind of future we choose to build together. Music and art are our tools to experience these ideas not only intellectually - but emotionally, and collectively as a society.
Our mission is to bring the richness and wonder of scientific discovery to audiences who might not otherwise encounter it, using music as a universal language through which science can be felt, explored, and shared. We seek to inspire curiosity in the next generation, strengthen engagement with scientific inquiry, and bring together communities around the joy of understanding our universe.
Light Sail at the Harvard Natural History Museum
Ultimately, we envision a culture in which science and the arts are not seen as separate worlds, but as complementary expressions of the same human impulse: to explore, to understand, to imagine, and to create. By bringing them together, we hope to plant these ideas more deeply in our culture - and help people see science not simply as a body of knowledge, but as part of our shared human story.
We are proud to participate in Mass Cultural Council's Card to Culture program in collaboration with the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Department of Public Health's WIC Nutrition Program, the Massachusetts Health Connector, and hundreds of organizations by making cultural programming accessible to those for whom cost is a participation barrier.
EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders receive a 50% discount to Multiverse Concert Series events. Select the “Card to Culture” option in our online box office and be sure to bring your card to the event.
See the complete list of participating organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.
Climate Hope Concert at the WBUR Cityspace with cellist Mike Block
Art of Polymers with the MONET Project
Cellular Dance at UMass Boston, research by Dr. Alexey Veraksa of UMass Boston
PROJECTS
Multiverse Concerts are produced in Massachusetts and performed in cities around the US by the Multiverse Orchestra and partner orchestras including the Rome Symphony and Symphony New Hampshire. Our concerts are designed to be adaptable for all groups who are passionate about science, music, and our future.
Our work is comprised of many simultaneous collaborations with scientists and labs, and we are continually developing more as our project grows. As often as we can, we revisit our programs from new angles, digging deeper into the research and highlighting the latest discoveries as they are made. By the time a year has passed, there can be huge changes in both knowledge and perspectives.
Our Core Programming includes:
Mars Symphony - concert and planetarium show with NASA JPL and the Museum of Science, Boston
Black Hole Symphony - concert and planetarium show with the Museum of Science, Boston
Climate Hope Concert - our annual concert of climate scientists, activists and musicians, with performances throughout Massachusetts and beyond during April’s Earth Month, in partnership with the Christa McAuliffe Center
Art of Polymers - a celebration of polymer science with the MONET Project of Duke, MIT and a consortium of major universities
Octave of Light - an album of exoplanet music with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cellular Dance - ballet with Cell Biologist Alexey Veraksa of UMass Boston
Phenomena of Growth - fluid dynamics music with Dr. Irmgard Bischofberger of MIT
Neutrino Music - an unfolding album of neutrino music with Fermilab
Octave of Light at the Museum of Science, Boston
Neutrino Music with Fermilab
REACH
Mars Symphony at the Museum of Science, Boston. Photo Credit: SRB Photography.
Multiverse Concerts take place in major science and music centers nationally. We have reached audiences in the thousands at venues such as the Museum of Science, Boston, the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, WBUR Cityspace, Christa McAuliffe Center and Kavil Auditorium of the National Academy of Sciences. We reach student communities through our connection to universities and local music schools. Multiverse has been featured three times on WGBH’s Live from the Library music stream, reaching a metropolitan Boston audience of 100,000 with our Black Hole Symphony and Art of Polymers projects.
Our premiere partner is the Museum of Science, Boston, co creator of our science symphony projects. In the 2022 and 2023 runs of Black Hole Symphony (13 performances), every concert seat was sold out, totaling 2,600 seats.
Following the success of our 2020-21 virtual season, we continue to present our events in hybrid format, with both in person and virtual options for audience members. As such, we are available to Massachusetts, as well as globally. We have presenters in English and in Spanish language versions of shows.
PARTNERS
Multiverse produces events in collaboration with:
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE, BOSTON
We produce a recurring series of events in collaboration with the Museum of Science’s Subspace Events Program and the Charles Hayden Planetarium.
NASA JET PROPULSION LAB
Our partner for Mars Symphony and future works.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CENTER
Our core partner for Climate Hope Concert and regular collaborator on concerts.
MATHWORKS
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Black Hole Symphony, Mars Symphony and the First Billion Years
UCLA
Multimedia concert Your Brain on Sleep with sleep researcher Dr. Gina Poe of the Poe Sleep Lab.
MIT
Phenomena of Growth multimedia concert with mechanical engineer Dr. Irmgard Bischofberger
Art of Polymers multimedia concert with Dr. Jeremiah Johnson of the MONET project
Duke University
Art of Polymers multimedia concert with Dr. Stephen Craig of the of the MONET project
University of Massachusetts Boston
Multimedia ballet Cellular Dance produced with the College of Arts and Mathematics, with cell biologist Dr. Alexey Veraksa
Harvard Applied Mathematics
Computed Futures concert in collaboration with applied mathematics professor Dr. Chris Rycroft