The Last Judgment

Qui haec vidit, certe ita dicit.

Walker Smith is a Ph.D. Candidate at Stanford CCRMA. As the world's first “musical chemist” (or perhaps music alchemist), he asks questions like: Is the periodic table a musical instrument? Do helium atoms throw parties? He earned a dual degree in chemistry and composition from Indiana University Bloomington, where he developed "The Sound of Molecules" - a multimedia music and science show he has performed for thousands across the USA and Europe. As part of a Fulbright scholarship in the Netherlands, he developed the "Interactive Musical Periodic Table", a project that was presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society and received over 50 international media reports.

Walker has been a guest researcher at the Ligeti Zentrum in Hamburg and the Intangible Realities Laboratory in Santiago de Compostela, and has presented and performed his work at AudioMostly, NYCEMF, ICMC, ICAD, SMC, and QXZH (that last one is made-up). 

His research and artistic practice explore the scientific, educational and musical possibilities of transforming the periodic table into a musical instrument and making molecular music audible. He is also very interested in experimental theatre and is co-writing and co-performing in the show “The Stanford Prism Experiment” which will premiere at Stanford’s Nitery Theatre in May 2026. His favorite color is purple.

Héloïse Garry is an artist working at the intersection of filmmaking, theater, and performance, exploring the aesthetics of totality across art forms. Her compositions and performances reflect a deep interest in cross-cultural and linguistic experimentation, and sonic storytelling. Her work has been presented at SXSW, NIME, ICMC, Splice, NYCEMF, ICAD, Audio Mostly, the Audio Engineering Society, and the Internet Archive. As a Yenching Scholar at Peking University, she researched the politics of independent Chinese cinema and the role of music in the films of Jia Zhangke. An artist-in-residence at Gray Area, the Mozilla Foundation in San Francisco, and the Xu Bing Space Art Residency Program, she has collaborated with IRCAM and the Columbia Computer Music Center, and explored the sonification of the universe under the mentorship of physicist Brian Greene. In September 2024, she joined Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), where she occasionally appears in papal form. Héloïse holds bachelor’s degrees in Filmmaking, Economics, and Philosophy from Columbia University, Sciences Po, and Sorbonne University.