About this talk

A lecture examining how music and biology are profoundly entwined. The heart beats, footsteps fall into familiar tempi, and even the movement of our limbs follows a natural rhythmic hierarchy. The lecture explores how our bodies shape the music we make and whether they contain a music of their own, discussing topics including: how breath shapes musical phrasing, how the ear's cochlear structure creates scales and harmony, the rhythm of bodily movement and its role in music, the history of the body in music theory (such as the Guidonian Hand), and the promise and limitations of music therapy. The lecture also explores sonification projects that translate biological structures and processes directly into music, including the Primal Sound project based on a human skull's coronal suture and the Bloodlines project based on blood cell counts during leukaemia treatment.

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