FIELD

Field - by Peter Zinovieff and Katrina Porteous

21 April 2015 - 22 April 2015, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

One performance each day.

Location: Planetarium, Life Science Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne

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£5 per personDuration: about 1 hourBooking recommendedAges 12+

A journey in music and words in search of the Higgs.

In 2012 scientists at CERN announced the ground-breaking discovery of the Higgs Boson, the particle which completes the Standard Model of quantum theory. But what exactly is it? And what are its implications? Field is a new live performance of voice and computer, by composer and computer pioneer Peter Zinovieff and poet Katrina Porteous, exploring ‘the stuff we are made of’.

Written in immersive 5.1 surround-sound, Field alternates music with words-and-music, to visit worlds very different from our own. Its seven movements explore the quantum – worlds of exquisite control which allow for random behaviour governed by strict probabilistic principles.

The Higgs Field, named after Newcastle-born physicist Peter Higgs, pervades all space-time, and everything that exists depends upon it, since it gives elementary particles their mass. It exists as the result of a moment of spontaneous symmetry-breaking. Field visits and revisits that moment, exploring its theoretical implications, including super-symmetry and dark matter. Field will include a full dome visual display by Planetarium Supervisor Christopher Hudson. It will be introduced by Dr Tom Lancaster of Durham University Department of Physics. No knowledge of physics is required to enjoy Field.

VEITCH

(in memory of Colin Campbell McKechnie Veitch, 1881- 1938)

‘One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.’

George Bernard Shaw 

Football brain,

you thought with your feet,

treading the boards

in a dynamic theatre

of passing action.

A winning way,

love of the glorious day 

and a sense of history

from Heaton Park

to socialism.

Your story,

from the pulsing Tyne

to the Geordie trophy room,

keeps us hoping

on Gallowgate,

alive with dignity

and strong respect

for the ideal of community

and the black and white love

of fairness.

Battling away,

in a skilled midfield 

and in the stinking trenches,

you fought

for your troubled lilting city

and all of those 

who ever kicked a ball

in its intimate soulful avenues.

KEITH ARMSTRONG

Colin Veitch made a total of 322 appearances for Newcastle United, scoring 49 goals. He  captained the United side which won League Championships in 1905, 1907 and 1909, the FA Cup in 1910 and were FA Cup finalists in 1905, 1906, 1908 and 1911, and also represented England on 6 occasions. 

Heaton History Group and Chris Goulding successfully campaigned for a commemorative plaque to be displayed on Colin Veitch’s former home in Heaton, Newcastle. The unveiling took place on 25th September 2013.