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Transforming Sounds, Altered Selves

Transforming Sounds, Altered Selves: How music changes in time, changes us and changes our worlds.
All cultures have stories of miraculous transformations—of individuals, groups, even landscapes—produced by instrumental music and song. In recent decades, our understanding of the transformative effects of music has itself been doubly transformed by new kinds of historical and cognitive research. These podcasts were created by Resident Members at Green College, at the University of British Columbia, and based on a series of public lectures and discussions at the College in 2017-18 that explored the modalities of mind/body-altering and world-changing musical experience in the persons of players and listeners across time, and also in the wider history of societies and cultures, using performances of “classical” (and other) music in all periods and settings, and their audiences, to generate data.

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Transforming Sounds, Altered Selves
The Mystery of Musical Being from 2023-12-14T06:58:24.943868

What kind of creatures must we human beings be, to be played on by music as we are? Pianist Emily Logan explores the transformative power of music from point of view of psychology (How does it h...

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Living in Musical Space-Time from 2023-12-14T06:58:24.937920

Can ancient and modern traditions of chant tell us something fundamental about the musical self? Clinical Psychology student Serene Qiu traces the transformative and unifying power of musical ch...

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Musical Cultures in Play from 2019-04-22T09:06

How is the ‘language’ of music learned? Can it be translated? Ethnomusicology student Anna Wright explains how music serves as a communicative device even in the absence of lyric content, and ho...

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Musical History in Motion from 2019-04-15T08:04

How do musical masterpieces travel through time? Philosophy student Ian Heckman speaks to Iain Fenlon, Emeritus Professor of historical musicology at the University of Cambridge; Tanya Tomkins (...

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Trailer for Transforming Sounds, Altered Selves from 2019-02-11T04:41

All cultures have stories of miraculous transformations—of individuals, groups, even landscapes—produced by instrumental music and song. In recent decades, our understanding of the transformativ...

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