![]() ![]() "I don't want shows to be that thing where they don't feel like they can go mental," he stated. Philippakis then clarified that he is not trying to say that he doesn't want any mosh pits, in fact, he encourages them, he just hopes that fans can find a healthy balance. He explained how it has bothered him and how there's an "increasing awareness" and "shady" things that go on which he'd rather not even hear about. He also spoke about a girl he had heard about, as well as women in general, and how they have been treated badly in mosh pits. "But I also have seen, not necessarily at our own shows but just over the years, people can get sucked into those things when they don't really want to be, and I think that just having an element of compassion for people that are in the set and you can see if someone's not enjoying it or feels threatened or feels like they're getting hurt, then I think it's a small thing to say, just to say 'look out for whoever's there'." I think there's got to be some common sense," he said. ![]() "I used to love moshing, and there's an inherent aggression and violence to that type of thing that goes on at a show, particularly if it's like a circle-pit type thing. In speaking to DIY, Philippakis elaborated on his reasoning for speaking out about out-of-contril mosh pits. After seeing some distressing things on his band's current tour, the " What Went Down" singer pleaded for fans to be kind to each other on Twitter, and reiterated his passions in a lengthy interview. Turn up the speed in the gaseous mosh pit and you begin to see how innocent molecules might get trampled in the fray.Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis wants his fans to respect the mosh pit and respect other fans at live concerts. So Silverberg separated the agro red MASHers from the peaceful, stationary gray bystanders. And as anyone who has seen a mosh pit knows, not everybody wants to tangle. Each circle in the simulator represents a human mosher defined as a “simple soft-bodied particle” dubbed Mobile Active Simulated Humanoid (MASHer). So Team Mosh developed a real time mosh pit simulator to test different variables such particle softness and how fast particles collide. In that form, the moshers looked a lot like atoms moving around in gas, the researchers realized.īut the team wanted to do more than watch YouTube videos - they wanted to take what they learned and make an interactive model of how these gas molecules might move if they turned into metalheads. They cleaned up the video to remove distortion and shaky camera work, and converted the movements into a two-dimensional plane. To study his idea, Silverberg and two accomplices from his program - Matthew Bierbaum and James Sethna - snagged YouTube videos of people crashing into each other at metal concerts. ![]() Amid the booziness and ear-ravaging music, Silverberg was struck by the possibility that moshers’ slam-happy moves bore a resemblance to collective movements found in nature, such as those of bird flocks and schools of fish. Moshing and gas science mixed when Jesse Silverberg, a Cornell graduate physics student and mosh aficionado, brought his girlfriend to her first heavy metal concert. That insight could be used to help predict how crowds behave in emergencies, which, in turn, could help generate better evacuation strategies–ones that even save lives. Have moshers been taking physics lessons? While swarms of sweaty, raging humans might look like anarchy, physicists at Cornell say heavy metal pits actually follow a certain logic, and it is similar to that of gaseous particles. ![]()
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