Science Pub - The Science of Melody: Motion, Metaphor, and Meaning in Music November 13, 2008

Join us at the November Science Pub to hear about:

The Science of Melody: Motion, Metaphor, and Meaning in Music
with Steve Larson, PhD
Thursday, November 13
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Cozmic Pizza http://www.cozmicpizza.com/ 199 W 8th Ave, (inside The Strand @ 8th & Charnelton)
Come early if you want to order food and drinks and get a seat!

People sometimes talk of being “moved" when listening to a piece of music, or about "traveling" up and down the scale when hearing a sequence of notes. Do these experiences have some real relationship to physical motion and how is it connected to the feelings we have when we listen to music? This Science Pub will explore recent research in cognitive science using music analyses, psychological experiments, and computer modeling to show how physical motion relates to what we experience when we hear music, as well as the important role metaphor plays in creating musical meaning out of our sense of motion. Come see for yourself how music moves you, complete with live musical examples drawn from a variety of styles.

Steve Larson, PhD, http://music1.uoregon.edu/About/bios/larsons.html is the Robert M. Trotter Professor of Music and a member of the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Oregon, where he teaches courses in music theory. He also serves as visiting faculty researcher at the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition (the artificial-intelligence lab of Douglas Hofstadter) at Indiana University. He is a jazz pianist, performing solo and with the group BLUE SONJA. A few of his recordings can be found at his website http://www.SteveLarsonJazz.com

Science Pub is open to anyone and everyone; no RSVP is necessary. Tell your friends. We hope to see you there!

Science Pub is held every second Thursday at Cozmic Pizza and is co-sponsored by OMSI http://www.omsi.edu, University of Oregon’s College of Arts & Sciences http://cas.uoregon.edu, and The Science Factory http://www.sciencefactory.org.

Questions? E-mail sciencepub@omsi.edu or call 503.797.4517.

Official Website: http://www.omsi.edu