2006 Boston Symphony - McGill University Collaboration:
WIRED FOR SOUND: SCIENTISTS MEASURE BRAIN RESPONSES IN
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT
Boston Globe front page article 4/5/06
This landmark exhibit
at the Boston Children's
Museum was opened to the public in the summer of 2003. Thank you
to our sponsors and contributors!
ThingMagic
The Digital Conducting Lab at
Arizona State University
Students of conducting at Arizona State University’s
School of Music have the opportunity to enhance their skills as performers
with the assistance of a one-of-a-kind technology.
Utilizing a feedback system designed by Immersion Music, the laboratory contains
the capacity to simulate the fundamental ensemble/conductor interactions
found in live-performance settings through an interactive program that
reacts to the tempo, articulation, and dynamic line generated by the conductor.
In addition to immediate, aural feedback, the system allows conductors
to review their performances via sound files, video playback, and analysis
of muscle-tension profile. Musical materials comprise a set of etudes that
systematically take a conductor through a review of basic conducting gestures.
The Immersion
Music Salon
A concert series that was launched October 21,
2000, featuring Boston-area improvising experimental musicians and visual
artists. Salon concerts have taken place at First Night Boston, the Zeitgeist
Gallery in Cambridge, and the Flywheel Gallery, among other locations.
Salon events have brought together performers to collaborate and invent
a new language of performance art in an atmosphere of supportive, fun,
artistic experimentation.
