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A one-day event featuring discussions, presentations, and performances that explore and celebrate the intersection of music with other disciplines.
In collaboration with Gresham Professors Robin May (Physics), Melissa Lane (Rhetoric), Sarah Hart (former Professor of Geometry), and Chris Lintott (Astronomy), and Professor Morten Kringelbach, the festival examined music’s role as a metaphor, language, and tool for understanding the wider world.
It charted an evolution of musical ideas, talking about the biology and co-evolution of human language and music, before moving through Ancient Greek philosophies on music’s place in society, education, and virtue. We explored the mathematical principles that underpin both the explanation and creation of music and asked how the brain finds pleasure, meaning, and movement in music. We also discussed the links between music and space - from Pythagoras to contemporary astro-sonification projects - tuning our ears to the symphony of the cosmos itself.
