In recent years, Lund University has invested much to emphasize the role of culture and the arts in education, research and innovation. To support teaching practitioners in this work, money for seed funding was announced last autumn.
One of the four funded projects is “The Physics of Opera – About tones in light and colours in sound”, in which the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts is collaborating with the LTH and the Faculty of Medicine. Hedvig Jalhed, IAC's director and lecturer at the Malmö Academy of Music, is one of the applicants.
The aim of the project is to produce material that uses operatic singing to improve understanding of sound, light and waves and thus to stimulate interest in physics. The material will be used in presentations, articles, teaching materials and films where opera and sound illustrate the physics behind various phenomena, but also vice versa when light is used to illustrate sound phenomena.
The project will be realised in 2025. In addition to Hedvig Jalhed, other participants in the project are Johan Mauritsson, LTH, and Karin Markenroth Bloch from the Faculty of Medicine.
Read more about the call for seed funding in LU-News: Four projects receive seed funding to integrate arts and culture into education and research | Staff Pages