Dr Mark Lewney was once described as "A cross between Einstein and Jimi Hendrix" by CBBC. Learn more about the winner of NESTA FameLab® and guitar physicist who blows your ears with rock guitar and blows your mind by Superstring Theory.
Dr Mark Lewney is a guitar physicist and a part-time science presenter who can handle questions on physics, climate, energy, space/time or philosophy. Mark has appeared on Radio 4’s Material World as a guitar expert, on BBC's Newsnight as a "physics evangelist", and on CBBC’s Xchange! as the “Rock Doctor.” Mark also delivers amazing physics and maths KS3, KS4, GCSE and A Level talks and presentations for schools and colleges, all complementing the national curriculum for science.
In 2007 Mark presented his guitar physics 3 Minute Wonder on Channel 4. Also, an extended guitar science lecture was recorded by the Cool Acoustics team at Loughborough University, and he also appeared in a BBC Money Programme special on patents and inventions, entitled Britain’ Brilliant Ideas Boom, and on the ONE show, both broadcast last November.
You can join Mark on 16 April in Music: An Explanation By a Guitar Hero as he performs his own composition and takes you on a tour through the science of music. Find out the processes that take music from the vibrations of the instrument, through the ear and then on to the brain. Test your musical ear, learn the secret of Stradivarius and discuss the ultimate question: what is the purpose of music? All of this will be happening at the Edinburgh International Science Festival in Informatics Forum. Don’t miss out!
(Suitable for ages 14+)
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