|
Event
Call and Response: Dr. Indre Viskontas and Aram Shelton's Sound Quartet
An experiment in arts and lectures, combining performance and presentation in the form of Call and Response:
Dr. Indre Viskontas will give a presentation, followed by an informal Q&A and an improv musical response by Aram Shelton's Sound Quartet.
Dr. Indre Viskontas is a neuroscientist and opera singer, straddling the line between science and art. She is a Professor of Science and Humanities at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she is pioneering the application of neuroscience to musical training and an adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of San Francisco. She is also the principal investigator of The Ensemble Project, designed to explore the relationship between music and empathy (www.TheEnsembleProject.com). She has published more than 35 empirical articles and book chapters related to the neural basis of memory and creativity. She is the founder and director of Vocallective, a vocal chamber music ensemble, and Opera on Tap: San Francisco, a chapter of the nation-wide organization whose mission is to create a place for opera in popular culture. A passionate science communicator, Dr. Viskontas co-hosted Miracle Detectives, on The Oprah Winfrey Network. In 2014, The Great Courses released her best-selling 24-lecture course 12 Essential Scientific Concepts and her next course, Brain Myths Exploded, is slated to be released in 2016. She currently co-hosts Inquiring Minds, a popular science podcast, is a sought-after public speaker, a frequent contributor to MotherJones.com, an Editor of the journal Neurocase and a frequent performer of opera and chamber music.
Aram Shelton is a saxophonist, clarinetist, improviser and composer based in Oakland, California where the projects Sound Quartet, Tonal Masher, Broken Trap Ensemble, and Ton Trio II represent his music. He is connected to Chicago (where he lived from 1999 to 2005) through his Quartet, the cooperative sextet Fast Citizens (Delmark), and Jason Adasiewicz' Rolldown (Cuneiform). His writing and playing has been documented through more than a dozen albums since 2003 and is grounded in and influenced by the rich history of avant-jazz and free improvisation in America and Europe since the 1950s.
For video, audio, and more information about the featured performers, visit http://emtab.org/call-and-response-mar-20-2015/ .
Drinks for sale. Delicious complimentary refreshments.
|
|
 |
LocationThe Emerald Tablet
80 Fresno St.
San Francisco, CA 94133
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
|
Contact
|
