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Bach: Music and Science in the Factory

Music returns to the workplace

Bach: Music and Science in the Factory

Over three hundred young people packed the Auditorium at the Pirelli Headquarters, on Thursday, 21 November 2019, to attend an event entitled Bach: Music and Science in the Factory. Engineers and musicians came together on stage to explain to middle- and high-school students about the invisible but close bond that unites the magic of musical notes with mathematical numbers. Maestro Salvatore Accardo’s violin led the way, starting with Bach – who more than anyone expressed the relationship between music and mathematics – and reaching all the way to the perfection of robotic movements in the factory, which follow a sequence like a symphony, adopting the algorithms of Industry 4.0 like the system of marks on a pentagram.

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Music and Science in the Factory
Music and Science in the Factory – The connection between music and mathematics
Music and Science in the Factory – Music with a story to tell: the factory from the twentieth century to the digital age
Music and Science in the Factory – Art as a new way to illustrate industry
Music and Mathematics: Abstraction and imagination 1 – Interview with Laura Gorna
Music and Mathematics: Abstraction and imagination 2 – Interview with Laura Gorna
Discovering Beauty in the Factory – Interview with Francesco Fiore
Pirelli: Genius in Business – Interview with Maurizio Boiocchi
The Rhythm of the Pirelli Factory – Interview with Emanuele Schiavon
Bach: Music and Science in the Factory – Young people have their say

“Our Bach”: Music and Science Together in the Auditorium at the Pirelli Headquarters

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“Our Bach”: Music and Science Together in the Auditorium at the Pirelli Headquarters

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