3/11: Session 6. Sounds and the Brain

With our March 11 meeting, Hearing Modernity continues to explore some of the relationships between sound and body featuring a very exciting pair of presenters:

Aniruddh Patel, “Two Surprising Connections between Sounds and Actions: A Perspective from Music Cognition”

Vijay Iyer, “Improvisation, Action Understanding, and Music Cognition with and without Bodies”

As always, the event starts at 4:15 pm in Holden Chapel in Harvard Yard. Precirculating papers are available here (contact us to unlock the pdf, info@hearingmodernity.org).

Image courtesy of Ned Sahin (www.nedsahin.com)

Image courtesy of Ned Sahin (www.nedsahin.com)

 

One of the exciting premises (and potential pitfalls) of “sound studies” as a plausible discipline is its wide disciplinary affiliations. While most of our speakers thus far have come from the humanities and social sciences, Session 6 brings the tools and questions of cognitive science to the conversation with Aniruddh Patel and Vijay Iyer (who is also a world-renowned jazz pianist). The session will be held on Tuesday to avoid conflicting with Herbie Hancock’s Norton Lecture (Set 4: “Innovation and New Technologies”). #EmbarrassmentOfRiches

-Peter McMurray

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