“Feel the Music”: Science of Music | 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.

Thursday, May 16, 2013
Art & Science of Music | “Feel the Music” Music & Science Expo | North Beach

A 3D, ambisonic sound studio helps make decisions in architecture, urban planning, and multimedia art, while new devices like the MobileMuse estimate the emotional impact of a live performance. Learn about these and other new technologies in music research in Session 3 of “Feel the Music,” a forum on music and emotions.

Program

• 2 pm: The Waves of Emotion
  Didier Grandjean, professor of Psychology, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva
• 2:30 pm: Musical Invasion of the Neural Circuits for Vocal Emotions
  Isabelle Peretz, cognitive neuropsychologist and professor of Psychology, University of Montreal
• 3 pm: Coffee break
• 3:30 pm: Metaphors, Gestures, and Emotions in Music
  Marc-André Rappaz, professor, Geneva University of Music, and Didier Grandjean, professor of Psychology, Swiss Center for Affective Science, University of Geneva
• 4 pm: Artistic Versus Scientific Research: The Challenge of the Swiss Art Universities
  Philippe Dinkel, Director, Geneva University of Music
• 4:30 pm: Panel discussion and audience Q&A with moderator Indre Viskontas

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