Striking a Chord: Hearing and Space April 27th, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » Vibration sense is one component of touch. Refinements of this sense, and in some animals the emission of vibration – typically from the vocal cords – has evolved to echolocation, to clicks, grunts, roars and to speech. The vibration of one special membrane, the ear drum, creates that wonderful interface that enables us to appreciate and locate sounds in 3-dimensional space and to discern what the source of that sound is. Through that tiny interface a realm both wide and deep opens up. Through naturally occurring sounds, but especially through music, our emotions can be strongly influenced and even molded. Leonard Bernstein described music as a sonic sculpture whose parade-like evanescence incorporates rhythm, intensity, tone, and coloration. Time and timing enter into this experience, and that fourth dimension moves us closer to Newtonian space, as a sense of depth and of movement emerge and are refined. What is a soundscape if not a colorful space of emotion. Literally calling out (or warning off) the value-scape that is our world. Participants: Mahan Azadpour Research Associate Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine Dr. Mahan Azadpour is a Research Associate Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where he focuses his research on cochlear implant and auditory brainstem implant devices. These are the most successful neural interface technologies and have transformed the lives of deaf individuals by enabling hearing sensation through direct stimulation of auditory neural pathways with… read more » Christopher Cerrone Composer View Papers / Presentations » Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984) is internationally acclaimed for compositions characterized by a subtle handling of timbre and resonance, a deep literary fluency, and a flair for multimedia collaborations. Recent commissions include In a Grove, a new opera co-produced by LA Opera and Pittsburgh Opera, a violin concerto for Jennifer Koh and the Detroit Symphony, a… 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 » Jill Gordon NEH/Class of 1940 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita & Professor of Philosophy Emerita, Colby College Founding Member & former Director, Ancient Philosophy Society Jill Gordon is the NEH/Class of 1940 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita and Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Colby College. She is a founding member and former Director of the Ancient Philosophy Society (APS). She is the author of two monographs, Turning Toward Philosophy: Literary Device and Dramatic Structure in Plato’s Dialogues (1999) and Plato’s Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human… 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 »
Mahan Azadpour Research Associate Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine Dr. Mahan Azadpour is a Research Associate Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where he focuses his research on cochlear implant and auditory brainstem implant devices. These are the most successful neural interface technologies and have transformed the lives of deaf individuals by enabling hearing sensation through direct stimulation of auditory neural pathways with… read more »
Christopher Cerrone Composer View Papers / Presentations » Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984) is internationally acclaimed for compositions characterized by a subtle handling of timbre and resonance, a deep literary fluency, and a flair for multimedia collaborations. Recent commissions include In a Grove, a new opera co-produced by LA Opera and Pittsburgh Opera, a violin concerto for Jennifer Koh and the Detroit Symphony, a… 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 »
Jill Gordon NEH/Class of 1940 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita & Professor of Philosophy Emerita, Colby College Founding Member & former Director, Ancient Philosophy Society Jill Gordon is the NEH/Class of 1940 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita and Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Colby College. She is a founding member and former Director of the Ancient Philosophy Society (APS). She is the author of two monographs, Turning Toward Philosophy: Literary Device and Dramatic Structure in Plato’s Dialogues (1999) and Plato’s Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human… 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 »