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