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Two St V concerts, on November 16 and 19 in Charleroi and Brussels, will mark an unprecedented experiment: the Orchestre symphonique de l'Université libre de Bruxelles is taking part in a research project with Cambridge University. Researchers will test a new form of musical writing for the first time, on the scale of a full orchestra, in order to evaluate its impact on performance and audience perception .

Blue supergiants are rock 'n' roll: they live fast and die young. This makes them rare and difficult to study. Before space telescopes were invented, few blue supergiants had been observed, so our knowledge of these stars was limited. Using recent NASA space telescope data, an international team led by KU Leuven studied the sounds originating inside these stars and discovered that almost all blue supergiants shimmer in brightness because of waves on their surface.