In our previous roundtable, Music to Whose Ears? Music, Emotion, and Mind (April 13, 2013), our participants explored a multitude of ideas connecting music and emotion. In this follow-up roundtable, artists and scientists will explore together the body’s role in musical experience, its perception and cognition.
All Helix Center events are free and open to the public, including this one!
Roundtables are streamed live our website and the recording remains available after the event events.
This is a past event that happened on Saturday, January 24, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm.
Participants
Nacho Arimany
Ethnic percussionist, Composer
Nacho Arimany is a master ethnic percussionist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, currently based in New York City. His music career began at age six as a classical piano student and singer with the Spanish National Choir and Orchestra, and he now works as a producer, performer, therapeutic musician, and educator. Beyond his early classical training, Arimany... read more! »
Edgar Choueiri
Professor of Applied Physics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associated Faculty, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Program in Plasma Physics, Princeton University
Professor Edgar Choueiri is Director of Princeton University’s Program in Engineering Physics, and Director of Princeton’s Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory (EPPDyL). He is tenured Full Professor in the Applied Physics Group at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, and associated faculty at the Astrophysical Sciences Department/Program in Plasma Physics at Princeton University. He... read more! »
Vijay Iyer
Composer & Pianist
Grammy-nominated composer-pianist Vijay Iyer was described by Pitchfork as “one of the most interesting and vital young pianists in jazz today,” by the Los Angeles Weekly as “a boundless and deeply important young star,” and by Minnesota Public Radio as “an American treasure.” He was recently named DownBeat Magazine’s 2014 Pianist of the Year, a... read more! »
Marina Korsakova-Kreyn
Marina Korsakova-Kreyn is a professional pianist and scholar in music perception and cognition. She received her Diploma in Piano Performance from Nizhniy Novgorod State Conservatory, Russia, and she received her Ph.D. in Cognition and Neuroscience from The University of Texas at Dallas. Her research is focused on emotional responses to music and on the perception... read more! »
Tristan Perich
Composer
Tristan Perich’s (New York) work is inspired by the aesthetic simplicity of math, physics and code. The WIRE Magazine describes his compositions as “an austere meeting of electronic and organic.” 1-Bit Music, his 2004 release on Cantaloupe Music, was the first album ever released as a microchip, programmed to synthesize his electronic composition live. His... read more! »
I’m an IBM Fellow, working in IBM Research and leading a major project we call – wait for it! – embodied cognition.
But, I come to this space from a very, very different direction than do you, namely, from the domain of artificial intelligence and the cognitive sciences.
I’m writing to seek a way to dialog (I’ve just ordered a copy Vijay’s PhD thesis), for I’d love to explore where our worlds connect.
I work with Watson, the system we built at IBM that bested the best humans at Jeopardy. By way of context, the elevator pitch I use these days is this:
Imagine unleashing Watson in the physical world. Give it eyes, ears, and touch, then let it act in that world with hands and feet and a face, not just as an action of force but also as an action of influence. This is embodied cognition: by placing the cognitive power of Watson in a robot, in an avatar, an object in your hand, or even in the walls of an operating room, conference room, or spacecraft, we take Watson’s ability to understand and reason and draw it closer to the natural ways in which humans live and work. In so doing, we augment individual human senses and abilities, giving Watson the ability see a patient’s complete medical condition, feel the flow of a supply chain, or drive a factory like a maestro before an orchestra.
Looking forward to connecting with some of you…