Dr. Terenzi is an Apple Computer AppleMaster and has appeared with comedian Sinbad, author Douglas
Adams, dancer Gregory Hines, and photographer Howard Bingham.
She is the first person to be a member of both the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (Grammy
Awards) and the American Astronomical Society.
She has appeared on CNN and in People, Time, Glamour, The Wall Street Journal, and Mondo 2000 (cover).
In lectures at UCSD, Stanford, and MIT, in performances and on television in the US, Europe, and Japan, Dr.
Terenzi has combined science and art to awaken people to the wonders of the universe around them.
Dr. Terenzi lives in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami.
The press says...
"Astrophysicist-Musician Uses Galactic Sound to Create Tunes" - Associated Press
"A cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna." - Dennis Miller, "The Dennis Miller Show"
"Look at the stars. Can't you hear them? Now, thanks to Fiorella Terenzi, an astrophysicist and musician,
stargazers can peek through a telescope, glance at the Milky Way and listen to the cosmos. ... Initially, Dr.
Terenzi kept acoustic astronomy to herself. But now she has turned performer, and Earth people are tuning
in." - Wall Street Journal, Marketplace Section front page.
"The source for this sound is a galaxy far, far away. How can we hear music from a galaxy? Well, our
interpreter is Italian Astrophysicist Fiorella Terenzi." "So Terenzi the Astrophysicist, who started out trying to
find another way to classify celestial objects, is also Terenzi the musician, with an album called Music from
the Galaxies and performance at observatories and planetariums and on TV." - CNN, "Future Watch.
"What's 180 million light years away and has a beat you can dance to?" "Forget pop stars. Twenty-eight
year-old Dr. Fiorella Terenzi has recorded a whole pop galaxy." - Glamour
"Dr. Fiorella Terenzi has more going for her than just her Madonna-esque mys- tique. ... Music from the
Galaxies has thrilled listeners across planet Earth with its strangely sensuous extraterrestrial tonalities." - L.A.
Style.
"Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, an Italian astrophysicist, has captured radio waves (a form of light) from a distant galaxy
180 million light years from earth, converted the cosmic waves into sound, and transformed the sound into
music." - Griffith Observatory.
"Since the beginning of time artists, poets, and song-writers have used the heavens for inspiration. Now there
is a musician who literally composes music that is heaven sent. She is Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, an Astrophysicist
with a degree from the University of Milan." "... she has been playing it for audiences around the world. We
caught up with the Madonna look-alike at, where else, the base of one of the radio telescopes in NASA's
deep space communications complex in California, where she told us why she decided to combine music
with science." - NASA Select TV, "NASA Today"
"Let's Get Astrophysical with Doctor Fiorella Terenzi" - MONDO 2000 - cover story
"In a new Island Records CD called Music from the Galaxies, Italian Astro- physicist and composer Fiorella
Terenzi has used the most modern radio-tele- scopes and computers to convert the natural radiation from a
galaxy designated UGC6697 into the audible range then add instrumental harmonies. A fascinating
their largest efforts yet to scour distant galaxies for intelligence on that end." - Newsweek On-Air Radio
To learn more about Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, please visit her web site at www.fiorella.com, or contact Dr. Terenzi by e-mail at fiorella@fiorella.com.
