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Dear Music and Science subscriber,
Chris Gayford will be giving a lecture on Feeling Sound with Dr Jane Ginsborg at the Royal Institution on 6th May 2009 at 7pm.
They will be joined by the Martindale Quartet and the event will be introduced by Vivienne Parry.
The Royal Institution of Great Britain
21 Albemarle Street
London
W1S 4BS
Background
Chris
has spent the last few years working intensively on Feeling Sound,
which is a new approach to audience development. Together with music
psychologists John Sloboda and Jane Ginsborg, and with the help of
students from RNCM and TCM, he has been trying to answer an
important question: can the filtering systems we use to protect
ourselves from everyday noise be consciously adjusted in order to
deepen our response to music?
The
team have found that they can direct people to attend to physical
qualities of sound, and that this redirecting of attention disrupts
the everyday filtering system. The result, according to many of the
students involved in the research, is a transformation in people’s
response to music.
At
this event, Vivienne Parry will be interviewing Chris and Jane about
their latest research, inviting the audience to participate in two
live experiments and exploring how the techniques apply to a Haydn
String Quartet, performed live by the Martindale Quartet.
Please drop me an email or a call in advance if you would like me to organize tickets.
Best wishes,
Alice Bowmer
Personal Assistant to Christopher Gayford
07824701887
Please do send this to any colleagues you feel may be interested in attending!