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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:Conjectures on music\, artistry and the brain\, Chaos & Comple
 x Systems Seminar\, Russell Gardner\, UW Department of Psychiatry
DESCRIPTION:George Steiner tells that  &quot\;... we write about books
  or about music or about art because 'some primary instinct of communi
 on' would have us share with and communicate to others an overwhelming
  enrichment...&quot\; He felt this in 1959 with his first major writin
 g and it remained his conviction. I find it resonates\, yet how does i
 t work? What does &quot\;instinct&quot\; mean in terms of the brain? I
  am not a musician and though always finding music a pleasure and most
  interesting challenge\, I have felt the reasons mysterious ones. Why 
 do people perform? Why do people listen? Where and how in the brain do
 es art generally and music specifically gain its place in humans? What
  I will say hinges on various recent readings and on communications fo
 r the past two years with fellow members of the Arts Immersion (AIm) g
 roup. Plus\, present some ideas on the medial temporal lobes that bear
  on performance issues and on evolutionary biology as these bear on hu
 man communication. I hope to address how do &quot\;artistic&quot\; peo
 ple - including musicians - compare and contrast with other people? Ho
 w does the musical communication share features of other communication
 s and how may it stand unique? How does it compare/contrast with other
  means of artistic expression? How does sound production and appreciat
 ion in non-human animals bear on the subject? <br><br>
\n  <br><br>
\n
 Gardner\, Howard: In search of the Ur-song. In Gardner\, Howard: Art M
 ind &amp\; Brain: A Cognitive Approach to Creativity. New York\, NY: B
 asic Books\, Inc.\, 1982. <br><br>
\nLevitan\, Daniel J. This is Your 
 Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. NY: Plume Penquin\, 
 2006. <br><br>
\nMithen\, Steve: The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins
  of Music\, Language\, Mind and Body. Cambridge\, MA: Harvard Universi
 ty Press\, 2006. <br><br>
\nSacks O: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and 
 The Brain. NY: Knopf\, 2007. <br><br>
\nSteiner\, George: Introduction
 \, A Reader. OUP\, 1984\, p.7.
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