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Professor B.S Sathyaprakash works at the Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy in the UK and is looking for gravitational waves- the rhythms of the Universe, first predicted by Albert Einstein.  His interest is in detecting these waves that exist in theory, find out how they are produced and discover what they can tell us about the universe.

Keith Waithe is an award winning flautist, composer, teacher, expert proponent of vocal gymnastics and leader of The Macusi Players who plays and composes music blending rhythms from the Caribbean, South America, Asia and Africa.  Keith mixes many sounds from his collection of over 200 flutes and he’s especially interested in how we use and respond to rhythm.

And you can see some of Keith's various flutes in the gallery on the right-hand side of the page. 

Christopher Hasty is Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music at Harvard University. Christopher wants to celebrate rhythm as a joyous expression of life and bring the humanities and science together in a way that recognises rhythm as the ultimate paradox; both chaos and order. His book, Meter as Rhythm (1997) is widely accepted as a one of the most authoritative works of its kind and he’s currently working on a book about the rhythmic formation of event, ‘Thinking with Rhythm’.

Anna Meredith is a Scottish composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. Anna makes music in a variety of different ways and spaces and is at home in a concert hall as in a city centre youth club. She is especially interested in setting up rhythmic expectation and then disrupting it- and observing how an audience reacts. Her work with body percussion and beat-boxing is a good example of this.

And you can see a photo still from Anna Meredith's body percussion piece 'Connect It' from the film '10 Pieces' in the gallery on the right-hand side