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   Festival goers get to make their own music at science event
Hundreds of visitors to last weekend’s Green Man Festival were able to experiment with some weird sounds and one of the world’s biggest whoopee cushions - thanks to a team from the University of Salford. To help foster more public awareness of the work of scientists, the team from the acoustics department set up a tent in the festival’s official science area, Einstein’s Garden. Staff and students invited people to experiment with making their own sounds using bikes, tubes and a variety of weird and wonderful objects and were on hand to explain the different acoustic properties behind the creation of each sound. Hundreds of young people and families at the festival in South Wales took time out from bands such as Billy Bragg and Doves to visit the Salford Sound Around You tent and experiment, making it one of the most popular of the science tents on site. Charlie Mydlarz from the School of Computing, Science & Engineering co-ordinated the event. “The UK needs more scientists and engineers,” he said. “By taking science to places like the festival we can show how science relates to people’s interests: in this case music. “The event went really well and we’re making plans for more of these events in the future.” Source: Salford University. Due to problems with spam only SalfordOnline members can now leave comments. Becoming a member of SalfordOnline only takes a minute, just hit the red Join Us button at the top right hand side of the page to create your Personal account. Got a news story? Need help with publicity for an event in Salford? Send it to newsdesk@salfordonline.com or call the SalfordOnline newsdesk on 0161 789 5377. |
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