Jamming with the cosmos: CERN and the music of physics at the Montreux jazz festival

Watch one of CERN’s highlights at this year’s Montreux Jazz Festival at “The Physics of Music and the Music of Physics“: jazz pianist Al Blatter jams with the Cosmic Piano, an instrument developed by particle physicist Arturo Fernandez Tellez and built from components prepared for the ALICE experiment. When a cosmic ray passes through one of four separate detector pads of the Cosmic Piano, it triggers a musical note and a colourful flash of light. The random intervals of the arriving rays combined with Bl