[CCoE Notice] Workshop: The Brain on Music: Music, Improvisation, and and Technology for Health and Well-being

[Grayson, Audrey A]

WORKSHOP The Brain on Music: Music, Improvisation and Technology for Health and Well-being

Lauren Hayes

School of Arts, Media and Engineering

Arizona State University


May 7-9, 2018. 8:00 am-7:00 pm


Room 185, Moores School of Music, University of Houston

Demonstration May 9 at 12:00 p.m.

Kindly RSVP to https://lauren-hayes-workshop.eventbrite.com<https://lauren-hayes-workshop.eventbrite.com/>




Seminar title: “Practices surrounding improvisation using new technologies”


Description of Workshop:

Music, Improvisation and Technology for Health and Well-being


Music, Improvisation and Technology for Health and Well-being is a transdisciplinary art-science-engineering engagement project that will work with a diverse group of professional and students to develop a series of art-science performances of new improvised creative works that are informed by noninvasive ‘artist-in-the-loop’ interfaces with the brain and the body. These performances will be scaffolded by a series of workshops developed to explore the role of the creative arts and improvisation on health and well-being.


The first workshop will explore how new instruments for musical expression (NIMEs) and improvisational practices in music and dance can be used to allow anyone (with artistic background or otherwise) to rapidly develop modes of expression, communication, and collaboration in a social setting, independent of their artistic background. Working with expert artistic mentors, scientists and engineers, the workshop participants will give a public performance at the end of the workshop that will engage audiences with new cultural experiences at the nexus of art, neuroscience and engineering.


The creative arts are ubiquitous and emotional, distracting and engaging. They can enable people to participate in stimulating and personally meaningful activities, and serve to improve health or treat neurological disease. Partaking in creative activities can help contribute to a better quality of life by empowering people through self-directed creative expression, and by being a source of social contact and cohesion. In addition to the widely accepted benefits of music, dance and the visual arts as a therapeutic practice, there is evidence that suggests that the impact of regular arts engagement and creative expression leads to physical, mental, emotional and social benefits that increase the quality of life. The first workshop will explore the impact of musical improvisation, expressive movement, and mobile brain-body imaging (MoBI) technology, as an art-science practice on health and social/emotional well-being. Lauren Hayes, assistant professor at Arizona State University and an internationally known musician and sound engineer will be the first guest artist-in-residence in these series of workshops. Other faculty include Cullen Professor Jose ‘Pepe’ Contreras-Vidal, Director of the UH BRAIN Center and the Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems Laboratory known for his Brain on Art research to understand the neural basis of creativity, Dance Professor and performer Teresa Chapman and Music Professor and Sax virtuoso Woody Witt from the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts.


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