Clara Cantore and Andrea Gamarnik. Picture Public TV
music for sciencea six -episode series depicting the unprecedented alliance between musicians and researchers to spread scientific work in Argentina, will air this Tuesday, May 10 at 11 p.m. Public Television.
In each of the stages, well-known Argentine artists will share a song dedicated to a research team and, thus, the scientific work developed during the pandemic and that is still valid today in our the country is informed by art.
It all started in 2020, when singer-songwriter and bassist Clara Cantore, who knew the work of scientists in Argentina to provide useful tools to deal with the new coronavirus, decided to “announce the his support ”for Andrea Gamarnik and her team from Fundación Instituto Leloir sending them a song.
Lito VItale participates in the cycle. Picture Public TV
“I knew they were doing what would be Argentina’s first serological test for Covid-19 and I wanted to accompany that delivery to my art,” recalls Cantore, who performed the song from Unquillo, in Córdoba.
That gesture was the beginning of an alliance that grew. More musicians want it Sandra Mihanovich, Juan Carlos BagliettoLito Vitale, Daniel “Pipi” Piazzolla, Eruca Sativa, Nahuel Pennisi and Juanchi Baleirón, among others, who began to play and sing with scientists from different parts of the country, first in the virtual, and eventually on their own laboratories.
Questions such as when and how to apply vaccines and what are the coronavirus variants were also kicked out. Picture Public TV
“On the one hand, we felt that we were accompanied by the reception of music in the laboratories, but then we realized that we could create a collaborative space to let society know everything we had learned about the pandemic,” he added.
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This is how the project happened music for sciencea channel to share information generated in laboratories.
“Questions were shared: How do vaccines work? When and how to apply them? What are the variants of the coronavirus? How did it appear? Why is mass vaccination important? The questions we all ask ourselves have are answers that respond in real time, so it’s very important to share them, ”said Gamarnik, a Conicet researcher at FIL.
From this meeting, musicians and scientists began to develop a common language that led to the creation of the Fundación por la Ciencia, a scientific, artistic and educational project to make science visible as a tool to create a better world.
“The amazing thing about the process is that now musicians and scientists have created a collaborative work space where creative artistic processes meet creative processes that lead us to generate new scientific knowledge, “said Gamarnik.
(Source: Télam Agency)
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