Mickey Hart & Carter Emmart To Present ‘Musica Universalis’ In New York City

Famed drummer Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead and Dead & Company will team with the American Museum Of Natural History in New York City for an artist-curated program on the evenings of April 13 and 14. The immersive event features live music and space visualizations in the Hayden Planetarium and a curated soundscape as part of the museum’s Our Senses exhibition based on Mickey’s recently released RAMU album.

The events will start with a walk-through of the American Museum Of Natural History’s Our Senses: An Immersive Experience special exhibition. A curated soundscape has been based on RAMU. Then, event attendees will join Hart in the museum’s Hayden Planetarium Dome for a live performance of Musica Universalis: The Greatest Story Ever Told, created in collaboration with the Museum’s Director Of Astrovisualization Carter Emmart.

Mickey will play his Pythagorean Monochord instrument known as “The Beam” while original space visualizations designed by Emmart are displayed. “Visitors will be taken on a musical and visual journey as they explore Hart’s ‘sonifications’ of our universe, from the first rhythms of the Big Bang to the neural vibrations of the human brain,” as per a press release announcing the event. Finally, eventgoers can take part in a Q&A session featuring Mickey Hart, Carter Emmart, neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley and Our Senses curator Rob DeSalle in which the panelists “will explore the connection between music and the vibratory universe, and the ways Hart uses that connection to further our understanding of the sonic relationship between man the universe.”

Tickets are on sale here. All ticketholders will receive an artist’s statement signed by Hart and a special vinyl edition of RAMU.