MUSIC & THE BRAIN

Lectures, Concerts, Performances, Films, Talks & Exhibition
Vienna, 2008

image © Korbinian Brodmann

A five-day project investigating the neuroscience of music, featuring leading neuroscientists alongside musicians and artists in the framework of Wien Modern 2008.

Combining lectures, concerts, performances, films, talks and an exhibition, the project explored central questions reflecting the growing importance of music in neuroscientific research

With Eckart Altenmüller, Gerold Baier, Vittorio Gallese, Thomas Herrmann, Lutz Jäncke, Stefan Koelsch, Peter Ablinger, Peter Böhm, Nicolas Hodges, Xavier Le Roy, Alvin Lucier, Michael Schmid • Music by Peter Ablinger, Brian Ferneyhough, Alvin Lucier & Igor Strawinski

Project I
What does our brain sound like? Live brainwave sonification experiments.
With Alvin Lucier, Lutz Jäncke (Universität Zürich), Gerold Baier (Universität Manchester) & Thomas Herrmann (Universität Bielefeld)
1. 11. 2008 • Wiener Konzerthaus

Project II
Auf der Suche nach dem Gedächtnis. Dokumentarfilm über Leben und Werk des Hirnforschers Eric Kandel (D 2008, 95 min.)
2. 11. 2008 • Wiener Konzerthaus

Project III
The naturalist as listener – the composer as naturalist
Works by Alvin Lucier • With Alvin Lucier, Gerold Baier (Universität Manchester) & Thomas Herrmann (Universität Bielefeld)
2. 11. 2008 • Wiener Konzerthaus

Project IV
Music, Language & the Brain
Works by Peter Ablinger • With Nicolas Hodges (piano), Peter Ablinger & Stefan Koelsch (Universität Sussex)
3. 11. 2008 • Wiener Konzerthaus

Project V
Motor Skills & Virtuosity — Sensorimotor Skills and Brain Plasticity in Music Making.
Works by Brian Ferneyhough • With Eckart Altenmüller (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover) & Michael Schmid (Flöten)
4. 11. 2008 • Wiener Konzerthaus

Project VI
Mirror Neurons, Embodied Simulation and Aesthetic Experience
Performance by Xavier Le Roy • Music by Igor Strawinski • With Vittorio Gallese (Universität Parma)
5. 11. 2008 • Wiener Konzerthaus

Project VII • Symposium
New Music between Introspection, Meditation and Sensorimotor Skills
3. & 4. 11. 2008 • Universität für Musik • Konzertsaal am Rennweg

Project VII • Exhibition
A Medical History exhibition accompanying the “Music & Brain” project with objects from the Federal Museum of Pathology and Anatomy, Vienna.
Curated by Beatrix Patzak & Berno Odo Polzer
Sat 1. 11. — Wed 5. 11. 2008 • Pathologisch-anatomischen Bundesmuseum • Narrenturm

  • Sonification Experiments with Alvin Lucier, Gerold Baier and Thomas Herrmann

    (image © Michael Zacherl)

  • Alvin Lucier preparing "Music for Solo Performer""

    (image © Michael Zacherl)

  • Alvin Lucier, Berno Odo Polzer and Peter Böhm

    (image © Michael Zacherl)

  • Eckart Altenmüller

    (image © Michael Zacherl)

  • Stefan Koelsch, Berno Odo Polzer and Peter Ablinger in conversation

    (image © Michael Zacherl)

  • Vittorio Gallese

    (image © Michael Zacherl)

  • Music & The Brain Program

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  • Wien Modern 2008 Catalogue Contents

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