516: Voices From the Cataclysms of the Universe

About this episode

Sophi Kravitz discusses the intersection of art, science, and engineering, including her work on cosmic ray detection and collaboration with sonic environment artists.

Sophi Kravitz joined us to talk about art, science, and engineering. You can see Messages from Space on Sophi's website /sophikravitz.com ). A subset of the artwork had a short stay for a demo at Chabot Space & Science Center . The completed work will be shown in 2026. Sophi mentioned collaborating with two sonic environment artists Sofy Yuditskaya and Ria Rajan . Geiger–Müller tube is an ionizing radiation detector. Cosmic rays move through space at nearly the speed of light, generally originating far away and long ago. You can also see them in a cloud chamber, like the one at San Francisco's Exploratorium. We also talked about using sculpting in Blender (there are many online video introductions). Sophi does EE consulting and system quality checking at her company Greenlight . The show this week is sponsored by us. And you. Please consider supporting Embedded.fm on Ko-fi or Patreon . Or tell a friend about the show. Transcript

People in this episode

Host: Embedded.fm

Guest: Sophi Kravitz

Topics covered

• art
• science
• engineering
• cosmic rays
• Blender
• ionizing radiation
• sonic environments

Keywords

• cosmic rays
• Geiger–Müller tube
• Blender
• art
• science
• engineering
• sonic environments
• Greenlight
• Messages from Space

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Chabot Space & Science Center, Greenlight

Books & works: Messages from Space

Places: San Francisco, Exploratorium

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