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Join Betaworks Studios for a screening of Tuning the Brain with Music on Tuesday, March 3rd.
Doors open at 6:00pm with the film beginning at 6:30pm. Seating is first-come, first-served.
Screening blurb
Where does music live in the human brain? How & in what form does a sound, a song, a musical piece become an embedded emotion, image, memory or unforgettable melody? How & why does music succeed, often very quickly, in transforming the physiology & neural connections of the human brain, from a baby in gestation to our last breath? Tuning the Brain with Music is a documentary film that introduces us to the spectacular transformative powers that music has on the plasticity & anatomy of the human brain in a sustainable way.
The human stories at the heart of the film are many & varied: there are premature babies in intensive care units appeased by music therapy sessions; Canadian veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress that music has saved from suicide; autistic girls who have formed a rock band; survivors of cancer & stroke for whom music has been an integral part of their medical healing protocol; & homeless youth for whom music is their lifeline.
Join filmmaker Isabelle Raynauld, an award-winning director, long time professor at the University of Montreal, & scholar at the MIT open Doc Lab as she takes us on a five-year journey to understand how our brains can find healing in seemingly simple ways. Beyond the lived stories of the various participants, Isabelle also introduces us to some of the world's leading researchers in neuroscience in order to better understand what is actually happening in the brain. Experts such ad Dr. David Poepple of New York University, Dr. Concetta Tomaino who founded the Institute for Music & Neurologic Function in New York with Oliver Sacks, Dr. Temple Grandin author of many books & studies on Autism & Isabelle Peretz of Montreal's own BRAMS Institute studying the effects of music on the brain.
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