How do STEM fields—science, technology, engineering and mathematics—inspire music, and vice versa? This question is at the heart of STEM Arts, a groundbreaking program by the Hopkins Center for the Arts in which innovative young composers “embed” among STEM subject faculty and students and, from that experience, create a new musical work, premiered at Dartmouth. Now in its fourth year, STEM Arts projects have brought together three emerging composers with Dartmouth researchers and students: Fay Wang (2013-14) and the Dartmouth Department of Biological Sciences; Tristan Perich (2015-16) and … [Read more...]