I started playing the piano when I was six years old and from there I had twelve years of classical music education. Vera Matenaar (VM): Music is a huge part of my life.
Vera, why did you want to make a composition using astronomy data? We find out more about the composition and the data behind it from Vera and some of the scientists involved: her supervisor Giulia Perotti from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Catarina Fernandes from the University of Liége, Belgium and Hannah Calcutt from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland. Vera used data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner, as inspiration for a stunning musical composition, which you can listen to in the YouTube video below or on the ALMA Protostellar Interferometric Line Survey website.
