67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 23, 2014 — November 25, 2014)

V0009: Music of Falling Paper

Authors
  • Z. Jane Wang, Cornell University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2014.GFM.V0009

A music dialogue between falling paper and piano from live improvisations. It is an attempt to use falling paper both as a ‘music instrument’ and a visual means to convey the connection between the movement of simple objects and the movement of living organisms. Each fall is a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations, but why do these movement evoke such a poetic feeling in us?

 

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