Striking a Chord: Hearing and Space

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
Christopher Cerrone
Composer
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
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
Tristan Perich
Composer

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They need to dispose of ECT in Psychiatry and use music!!!!!!!!!!!!