Fiorella Terenzi

Fiorella Terenzi

Dr. Fiorella Terenzi is an Italian astrophysicist, author and musician who is best known for taking recordings of radio waves from galaxies and turning them into music. She received her doctorate from the University of Milan but is currently based in the United States.

Terenzi is known for her CD-ROM "Invisible Universe" which combines music and poetry with astronomy lessons, and for a sexually charged 1998 book about science entitled "Heavenly Knowledge". She has also released a number of albums of her music.

She is known as an Apple Computer "AppleMaster", and has collaborated with the likes of Thomas Dolby, Timothy Leary, Herbie Hancock and Ornette Coleman.

When she isn't performing, she teaches astronomy at Pierce College in Los Angeles.

As of 2006, she was teaching astronomy at Brevard Community College in Cocoa, FL.

Discography

*"Music from the Galaxies" (1991)
*"The Gate to the Mind's Eye" Soundtrack (with Thomas Dolby) (1994)

External links

* [http://www.fiorella.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.piercecollege.edu/faculty/terenzif/ University page]


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