“Feel the Music”: Hitchcock Techniques, Film, Emotion & Neuroscience | North Beach

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“Feel the Music” Music & Science Expo | North Beach

Most of us have experienced joy, sadness, or fear while listening to a live musical performance or the score to a film. What can science tell us about how music and sound affect our brain and induce feelings?

“Feel the Music” is a two-day forum on music and the science of how it produces emotion, happening at swissnex San Francisco.

Over the course of two days, swissnex San Francisco and the NCCR Affective Sciences research center at the University of Geneva bring together renowned psychologists, neuropsychologists, engineers, literary theorists, artists, musicologists, musicians, entrepreneurs, and historians from around the world to discuss the latest research on music and emotion.

Friday, May 17, 2013
Film, Emotion & Neuroscience | “Feel the Music” Music & Science Expo | North Beach

Kubrick, Scorsese, Lynch, Hitchcock… these iconic filmmakers exhibit mastery of combining images and sound to heighten suspense and drama. Session 4 of “Feel the Music,” a forum on music and emotions, analyzes different styles of film-making and the way various techniques change a viewer’s experience—even the brain’s response, as seen with fMRI.

Free, but an RSVP is required.

Could this provide a quantitative way of testing the success of a film and lead to an interdisciplinary field of cognitive neuroscience and film studies, called “neurocinematics”? The session ends with a workshop on Hitchcock’s emotion-building techniques.

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