Jazz and science come together as part of Sustainability Weeks. We are all complex, multi-organismic beings composed of an enormous diversity of life forms: so-called holobionts. According to Kiel-based zoologist Prof. Thomas Bosch, we are colonized by more microbes and bacteria than we have cells. What could make this polyphony more sensually tangible than music?
Jazz trumpeter Jakob Bänsch, originally from Tiefenbronn near Pforzheim, is one of Germany’s most exciting young musicians today. The 22-year-old studies in Cologne, tours across Europe, and has already been awarded the “German Jazz Prize.” Together with the Loreen Sima Trio, he plays jazz standards such as “Footprints” and “Body and Soul.” In addition, Prof. Thomas Bosch offers illuminating insights into his research, in which he describes every living being not merely as a distinct individual, but as a metaorganism—a polyphonic network of host cells and symbiotic microbes that function and evolve together.
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