Conference reports from the MA Art and Science students at Central Saint Martins
We were delighted that the Central Saint Martins MA Art and Science cohort and their Course Leader Nathan Cohen attended October’s conference. The students have penned reviews of the individual presentations and it is very interesting for us to be able to hear the opinions of an entire graduate course on the conference proceedings. You can download their reviews (unedited) below.
Voice and the Brain
Park Crescent Conference Centre, 229 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PN
On Sunday 15th January 2012, the British Voice Association hold a study day suitable for all voice professionals (speech therapists, surgeons, singing teachers, voice teachers).
Topics include:
- Brain function in relation to voice, in both therapy and education.
- Recent research into neural processing for both spoken and sung voice.
- The role of brain plasticity in rehabilitation and learning.
- Gender differences between child and adult voices explored from an evolutionary basis.
SPEAKERS:
Prof Sophie Scott (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)
Dr Katie Overy (Senior Lecturer in Music Psychology, University of Edinburgh)
Prof John Rothwell (Professor of Neurophysiology, UCL)
Dr David Reby (Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Sussex)
Click here for more information and application form
Packed 2011 conference on October 7th enjoyed by over 200 delegates
Outstanding team of lecturers and musicians made Friday's conference an event to remember. Transcripts will be available shortly.
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2011 Conference
'Why Music? Is Music Different from the Other Arts?'
Friday 7th October 2011
at the UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG.
See the EVENTS page for more information.
The evening concert, which is integral to the conference, will be in St. Pancras Parish Church, a ten minutes walk away.
A Gift of Culture
A documentary film by Robert Golden on the work of Nigel Osborne, composer, and Professor of Music at Edinburgh University, showing how music in the community and music therapy help to heal children suffering from secondary war trauma in Bosnia and other neurological and psychological problems.
Available to download: www.objectivecinema.net/showcase/2010/03/01/gift-of-culture/
Just click on the link above and enter in this code ocgc08 and you can receive 10% off on all of your purchases with Objective Cinema. The film centres on a children’s summer camp above Sarajevo which Professor Osborne has run for the last 12 years. Together with numbers of his students, theatre and music practitioners and other music therapists, he helps the children to develop their own theatre piece. This leads the children into realms of creativity, it develops cognitive skills, calms them emotionally and enhances their self-confidence. Alpha Woodward, an experienced music therapists, explains to a group of teenagers from Srebrenica the meaning of secondary trauma and how they may use techniques and skills to help younger children in their blighted town.
A GIFT OF CULTURE will be of interest to people involved with child psychology, music therapy and cultural development in both the global north and south as well as giving a general audience insight about the aftermath of war. Included in this film are three extras:
• an interview with Nigel Osborne
• an interview with Alpha Woodward
• a seminar in which Ms Woodward and Darren Abrahams, a trained singer and theatre practitioner, help a group of young people from Srebrenica to cope with troublesome children in their theatre group
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A Carnival in Rio - Sound, Rhythm and the Body
By Nigel Osborne
Imagine you are in Rio de Janeiro at Carnival time. It is late at night, but you are walking through streets full of people. You are relaxed, and happy to feel aware of yourself, or your body and of the present moment. Sounds, scents, shapes and colours drift through your senses, seeming to arise, mingle and disappear in an almost “timeless” flow.
Click here to read the full article as a pdf
Post-Festival Reports: 2009 Conference
By the Student Bursary Recipients
Saturday 15th August 2009
Only a few minutes into Friday’s programme of presentations and music, I found myself wishing that I’d chosen that day to report on. The moment that Professor Nigel Osborne took to the plinth in the Mews conference room, the atmosphere became charged, with a keen sense of inquisitiveness, enthusiasm, and a hunger for rigour. It was an atmosphere that would prevail throughout the weekend, as speakers, musicians and delegates immersed themselves in a rich world of music, psychology and neuroscience.
Click here to read the full report as a pdf
(In top photograph: Greg Harradine, Kirstin Anderson, Lou Johnson, Emily Carr, Lyndsey Dryden, Jonathan Colgan, Carolina Naess, Pierce Hale)
(In the bottom photograph, the speakers from left to right, are Robert Zattore, Nigel Osborne, Katie Overy, Stefan Koelsch and Jessica Grahn.)
