At another moment, the screen behind him displayed different variations on the initials JID, like “Juggling’s Incredibly Difficult” or “Jesus In Disguise.” These artistic elements elevated the performance into the type of intense audiovisual experience only a festival can provide. Strobe lights and hallucinogenic images of animals and football tackles lit up the stage. The reverberating acoustics were accompanied by extensive screen effects. His set was heavy on the 808s, the power from the speakers driving the audience into a frenzy. JID kicked off his show with the energetic banger “NEVER,” with opening lyrics “Never been shit, never had shit,” echoing through the festival. They plan to continue their research, while rocking on.Fresh off the Mar 31 release of his feature on Dreamville Records’ “D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape,” Atlanta rapper JID took the Shine stage at North Carolina’s Dreamville music festival by storm. "We hope that this will provide a lens into looking at other extreme situations such as riots and protests and escape panic," Bierbaum says. Mosh pits might provide clues about the new rules. In emergencies people panic, and the movement rules they follow change. The new mosh pit research could be interesting for another reason. Now concertgoers can be added to the list, he told NPR in an email. Flocks of birds and schools of fish do similar things. It's not just the metal heads that obey these kinds of basic mathematical rules, says Andreas Bausch, a researcher at the Munich Technical University in Germany. You can try some simulations for yourself in their mosh pit simulator below. Using a mixture of simulated moshers and standing fans, they could reproduce mosh pits, circle pits and other common collective motions that take place at metal concerts. Using just a few variables, like how fast people moved and how dense the crowd was, Bierbaum and Silverberg created a mathematical model that they presented at this week's March meeting of the American Physical Society. Silverberg emphasizes that no tax dollars went toward buying concert tickets - the study is a labor of love. They went to concerts and studied videos from YouTube. Physicists have worked out the basic rules that describe this kind of motion, so Bierbaum and Silverberg decided to look for the rules of motion in moshing. "It was basically just this random mess of collisions, which is essentially how you want to think about the gas in the air that we breathe," he says. While he was watching, he realized that the motion of people in a mosh pit looks kind of like molecules moving in a gas. "But this time I wanted her to be safe and have a good time, so we stayed out on the side and watched things from there." "Usually I would jump in the mosh pit," he says. They're also metal heads who enjoy going to concerts and hurling themselves into mosh pits full of like-minded fans.Ībout five years ago Silverberg took his girlfriend to her first gig. Both are graduate students at Cornell University. Physics and heavy metal don't seem to have a lot in common, but Matt Bierbaum and Jesse Silverberg have found a connection. Fans in the mosh pit during the performance of Liturgy at the 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, Chicago, on July 14, 2012.
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