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Canceled: Mariusz Kozak - Improvising Musical Time: A Perspective from Embodied Cognition

March 7, 2024
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Online and in-person; Fayerweather Hall (Room 513), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York 10027

Event Description

This event has been canceled. 

Music is often regarded as a temporal artform, but what does that truly entail? According to Mariusz Kozak, musical time emerges from interactions between sonic events and the embodied responses of participants—performers and listeners alike. More specifically, musical time is enacted when we coordinate our movements, ranging from surreptitious tapping and head-nodding all the way up to full-blown choreographies and vigorous headbanging, with what we perceive to be opportunities for action. We improvise time with and through our bodies when we use our knowledge of what movement feels like to turn explicit events (the present) into implicit ones (the past), and implicit events (the future) into explicit ones (the present).

Event Speaker

  • Mariusz Kozak, Associate Professor of Music, Columbia University

Event Information

Free and open to the public; RSVP required via Eventbrite. Registered attendees will receive an event link shortly before the seminar begins. Please contact the group organizer, Jessie Cox, at [email protected] with any questions. This event is sponsored by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program at Columbia University. For more information, please visit the event webpage.

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