Event: lightening in a bottle
by Greg on Apr.24, 2009, under Science Event
Lightening in a Bottle: The Science, Art, and Psychology of Jazz
What are the ingredients that coalesce into the enlivened art form of jazz? What keeps it from sounding like a traffic jam? Musicians improvise with and against each other, individually and yet cohesively. They play (around) with form, melody, harmony and rhythm. Each musician’s excellence provokes brilliance in the other. Listeners, suspended in sound, delight in the unexpected, and take comfort in the familiar. When it works, it is restorative, even transcendent—moments of frisson, like “catching lightening in a bottle” (Wynton Marsalis). Odean Pope, a legend of cutting edge jazz composition and saxophone, will perform with his trio. The performance will be followed by an interdisciplinary discussion. Panelists will consider the intrinsic neurological and intrapsychic characteristics of the musicians, the role of culture, the importance of empathic connection between the musicians, and the reciprocal effect on the listener/performer.
Philoctetes Center, 247 E. 82nd St., between 2nd and 3rd Ave.
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