MINGDU LI
2024 Plug Festival: Calum Huggan & RCS MusicLab
Thu 02 May
|Stevenson Hall
The First Light - for Percussion and Chamber Ensemble “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” -- Genesis 1:3 Mingdu Li - Composer Jacobus De Jager - Conductor Calum Huggan* - percussion
Time & Location
02 May 2024, 19:30 – 20:40
Stevenson Hall, 100 Renfrew St, Glasgow G2 3DB, UK
About the event
https://www.rcs.ac.uk/whats-on/plug-7-calum-huggan-rcs-musiclab/
Plug 7: Calum Huggan & RCS MusicLab - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
The First Light - for Percussion and Chamber Ensemble
Cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation is the afterglow of the Big Bang, pervading the entire universe. After the Big Bang, when the universe had cooled down enough for protons and electrons to combine, the ‘first light’ emerged in our universe. This event is called recombination. The photons have cooled down over billions of years, creating the CMB radiation that we detect today. The CMB today represents the earliest moment in the universe's history that we can observe directly. This first gleam of light embarked from the looming origin, journeying across boundless spacetimes, to now blossom into an omnipresent noise of life and vibrance.
“And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” -- Genesis 1:3
Mingdu Li - Composer