Music and the Brain

Submitted by bryan.noll on Mon | 03.09.2009 | 12:48

Coming up this Saturday, March 14th at 2:30pm soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom, one of my closest mentors during my time studying at the New School, will be participating in a round table discussion on music and the brain at the Philoctetes Center in NYC with some fascinating people. She'll be talking with neuroscientist Josh McDermott, Arabic musician Taoufiq Ben Amor, psychoanalyst Alexander Stein, and audio engineer Jaim Anderson. Should be pretty exciting and it's FREE. Come on by if you can.

Read more on the Philoctetes site

Dancing on the Ceiling : Music and the Brain
Sat, March 14, 2:30pm
Philoctetes Center for the Multi-Disciplinary Study of the Imagination
247 E. 82nd St. NYC
tel # 646 422 -0544
www.philoctetes.org

The following video is from a previous Philoctetes Center workshop entitled Creativity in Jazz Improvisation led by JIB and Lewis Porter: click here