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 how it can help create our senses of individual and

Musical History in Motion

Apr 15th, 2019 35m 58s

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 (cello) and Eric Zivian (forte piano). Learn how pe

Living in Musical Space-Time

Apr 8th, 2019 23m 26s

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 chant, inside and outside religious communities. Pro

The Mystery of Musical Being

Apr 2nd, 2019

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 help us to express emotion and develop social bonds

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Trailer for Transforming Sounds, Altered Selves

Feb 11th, 2019

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 transfor

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