Symposium Participants
Judith Becker, Ph.D., Director of Centers for SE Asian Studies & World Performance Studies & Professor of Musicology, University of Michigan.
Judith Becker, an authority on the music of Southeast Asia, teaches ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan. She was director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, a unit of the International Institute at the University of Michigan for the past seven years. She is a co-founder of the Center for World Performance Studies at the University of Michigan and was its first director.
She has written numerous articles and is the author of three books. Her most recent book, Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion, and Trancing, received the Alan Merriam award from the Society for Ethnomusicology for the best book in ethnomusicology published during the year 2004.
Dr. Becker's current research focuses on the relationships between music, emotion and ecstasy in institutionalized religious contexts and in secular contexts. She is exploring the common ground between humanistic, cultural, anthropological approaches and scientific, cognitive, psychological approaches.
Jonathan Berger, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music at Stanford University, Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SICA) and Stanford University's arts initiative
Jonathan Berger has composed symphonic works, three concerti, works for all varieties of chamber ensemble, vocal, choral and electroacoustic works. Among his awards and commissions are three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, prizes from ASCAP, commissions from WDR, and prizes from the Bourges Festival. His works are available on Sony, Neuma, CRI and Harmonia Mundi labels. His current commissions include Tears in Your Hand for piano trio, a violin concerto and his fourth string quartet. Berger's most recent CD, Miracles and Mud will be released by Naxos Records on their American Masters series in Spring 2007.
In addition to composition Berger is an active researcher with over 60 publications in a wide range of fields relating to music, science and technology.
Berger is Associate Professor of Music at Stanford and Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SICA) and the University's arts initiative.
Thomas Budzynski, Ph.D., Affiliate Professor of Psychology, University of Washington.
Thomas Budzynski graduated first from the University of Detroit with an Electrical Engineering degree and worked in aerospace for 7 years. He was the inertial navigation supervisor on the SR71 Blackbird project at Area 51. Later he earned a master's and Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Dr. Budzynski was one of the pioneers in the area of biofeedback, and has developed a number of biofeedback instruments along with John Picchiottino. In addition to on-going research with Johann Stoyva at the University of Colorado Medical Center, Tom started a private biofeedback clinic in Denver with Charles Adler and Kirk Peffer circa 1972. He later managed the clinic for 16 years before re-entering the academic world again as an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington.
He continues research in the areas of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, academic performance enhancement and cognitive enhancement in the elderly with his able associate and wife Helen Kogan Budzynski, Ph.D. who is a Professor Emeritus at the university in the School of Nursing. A licensed psychologist in Washington, Dr. Budzynski sees selected patients for neurotherapy at his home office.
Thomas F. Collura, Ph.D., P.E
Thomas F. Collura has over 25 years experience as a biomedical engineer and neurophysiologist. He has conducted clinical research and system design, in the areas of evoked potentials, microelectronics, human factors, EEG mapping for epilepsy surgery, and neurofeedback.
Dr. Collura spent 8 years with AT&T Bell Laboratories as a technical staff member and supervisor in the areas of integrated circuit technology, computer graphics, networking, and man/machine interfaces. He then served from 1988 to 1996 on the Staff of the Department of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he conducted research and development in EEG mapping for epilepsy surgery, long-term EEG monitoring, and DC brain potentials. As a consultant to industry, he has designed software and hardware for computerized tomography, automated radiometry, and automated imaging for the security industry.
Dr. Collura has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, abstracts, and papers. He holds 2 patents, and has 3 patents pending in the areas of neurofeedback, electrode technology, and evoked potential methods and systems. His current interests focus on research and development of automated neurofeedback systems, evoked potential neurofeedback, and low-cost quantitative EEG.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D., C.S. and D.J. Davidson Professor of Psychology and Management at the Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University.
Dr. Csikszentmihalyi is best known for his work on the concept of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic. He is also recognized for his work in psychological studies of happiness, creativity, and fun.
Dr. Csikszentmihalyi is the author of over 120 articles and book chapters. His books include the bestselling Flow, Being Adolescent, The Evolving Self, and Creativity. He is a member of the American Academy of Education, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Leisure Sciences.
Gamo Da Paz
Born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Gamo Da Paz is a third generation Master Drummer who was raised in the lineage of the Candomblé tradition of the Ketu nation. Candomblé, an ancient religion of African origin, amplifies the spiritual connection between traditional drumming and dance. Initiated as a Candomblé Master at the age of 13, Da Paz is one of the few drummers who plays ceremonial and healing rhythms in the most renowned religious houses in Brazil and internationally.
By the age of 18, Da Paz was touring with artists such as Grammy Award winner, Gilberto Gil. He currently teaches traditional drumming in the San Francisco Bay Area and is the Co-Founder of Unification of Cultural ARTS (UC ARTS), a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that merges the practice of cultural arts with health and wellness. In furthering of this mission, Da Paz teaches drumming as a means of stress reduction to faculty and staff as part of the Health Improvement Program at Stanford University. His organization also offers the UC ARTS Youth Empowerment Program, a school-based project that utilizes dance and drumming as an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to issues such as childhood obesity, self-esteem, and academic performance.
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Peter Desain, Ph.D., Music, Mind, Machine group, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Dr. Peter Desain has a background in mathematics and psychology. His PhD research was conducted at City University in London on the topic of structure and expressive timing in music performance.
After postdoc positions and a year as a visiting scientist at the IBM Watson Center in New York, he received a grant to create the Music, Mind, Machine group at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
One of Dr. Desain's research goals is to establish a thorough methodology for computational modeling of music cognition where psychology, musicology and computer science are tightly interwoven. He also aims to build a robust BCI method for the handicapped by exploiting selective attention and the temporal structure of the stimuli.
Sridhar Devarajan, Department of Neuroscience, Stanford University
Devarajan is a graduate student in the Neurosciences program at Stanford University. His current research focuses on understanding the neural basis of auditory perception using music. The cultural ubiquity and ecological relevance of music make it an ideal stimulus to study human auditory perception. Towards this end, he plans to investigate the functional neuroanatomy of the human auditory cortex using functional magnetic resonance imaging and machine learning algorithms. His other interests include listening to Western classical and Indian Carnatic music, and building systems-level computational models of complex neural systems that underlie human perception and behavior.
Robert Gatchel, Ph.D., ABPP, Department Chairman & Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Arlington.
Robert J. Gatchel has always been involved in new "cutting edge" areas of science and medicine. He published the initial text in Health Psychology with Dr. Andy Baum (An Introduction to Health Psychology), introduced the functional restoration approach to chronic pain and disability with Dr. Tom Mayer at the Productive Rehabilitation in Dallas for Ergonomics (PRIDE), and worked as a major advocate for the biopsychosocial approach to chronic pain. This approach is now viewed as the most heuristic model for better understanding the etiology, assessment, treatment and prevention of chronic pain.
Dr. Gatchel has conducted extensive evidence-based clinical research, much of it continuously funded for the past 25 years by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He currently holds a prestigious Senior Scientist Award from NIH. His major areas of clinical and research expertise involve the following: the biopsychosocial approach to the etiology, assessment, treatment and prevention of chronic stress and pain behavior; the comorbidity of physical and mental health disorders; and clinical health psychology. He has published over 240 journal articles, 83 book chapters and has authored or edited 23 books.
Dr. Gatchel is currently the Chair of the Department of Psychology, College of Science, at The University of Texas at Arlington, as well as the Director of Clinical Research at The Eugene McDermott Center for Pain Management, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Management, at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Aleta Hayes is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, performer, and teacher. She is on the faculty at Stanford University's Department of Drama and its Dance Division, where she is a Lecturer in Contemporary Dance and Performance.
Aleta Hayes lived and worked in New York City for fifteen years, choreographing solo and group dance pieces, in which her performances often interpolated acting and singing.
In 2004, Ms. Hayes returned to Stanford on a Ford Foundation Resident Dialogues Fellowship through the Committee on Black Performing Arts, for which she created The Wedding Project, a performance piece of multiple genres illustrating the evolution of American social dance through the narrative of African-American wedding traditions. She extended this "theater of mixed forms" into community dialogue when she was a 2005 Peninsula Community Foundation Artist-in-Residence at Eastside Preparatory School in East Palo Alto. That residence culminated in The ReMix Project, where she collaborated with students to create and perform a montage of music, monologue, and movement. This past Winter she created The Stanford Remix Project in collaboration with students in the Stanford Institute for Diversity in the Arts Program.
Currently, Aleta Hayes is doing research at Stanford's Center for Computer Music and Acoustics (funded through the Stanford Humanities Lab) on the creative integration of African Diaspora traditions, contemporary dance performance, and new multi-media, electronic technologies through the Stanford Humanities Lab pilot program.
William Hurlbut, M.D. is a consulting professor in the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University. In January 2002, Dr. Hurlbut was appointed to the President's Council on Bioethics. His main areas of interest involve the ethical issues associated with advancing technology and neuroscience and the integration of the philosophy of biology with Christian theology. Dr. Hurlbut has co-taught integrative courses at Stanford with Luca Cavelli-Sforza, director of the Human Genome Diversity Project, and Nobel Prize winner Baruch Blumberg. Dr. Hurlbut also works with the Center for Security and International Cooperation on a project formulating policy on Chemical and Biological Warfare and with NASA on projects in Astrobiology.
Stanford Hwimori is a multiethnic group comprised of students, alumni, and other members of the Stanford community that are committed to the performance and perpetuation of Korean cultural performing arts on-campus and in the Bay Area. The group was founded by three Korean American students in 1993 and was originally called Stanford Samulnori. Since then, we have changed the name of our group and expanded our repertoire to include dances such as /talchum/ (mask dance), /o-buk-chum/ (lit, "five buk dance"), and /minyo/ (songs) in addition to / p'ungmul /(folk drumming).
The word /"hwimori"/ has two meanings. In one sense, /hwimori/ is a quick, energetic 2-beat rhythm in Korean traditional music. The word also has another connotation: a political movement bringing together people and groups in a united effort for social change. As such, we members of Stanford Hwimori aim to educate ourselves and our audience about the rich cultural heritage found in / p'ungmul/ as well as to promote social justice and general appreciation of cultural diversity through our performances.
Petr Janata, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis
Petr Janata is a cognitive neuroscientist specializing in studies of auditory and music cognition. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1996, where he performed electrophysiological studies of auditory object representations in the barn owl brain and musical image formation in the human brain. As a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago from 1997-1999 he used electrophysiological and computational approaches to investigate song-perception and song-learning in songbirds.
From 2000-2004, Dr. Janata was on the research faculty at Dartmouth College, where he resumed his long-standing line of music perception research, initiated as an undergraduate at Reed College and continued as a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Austria.
Since 2004, Dr. Janata is a faculty member of the newly formed Center for Mind and Brain at UC Davis, where he continues to use music and neuroimaging tools as a means of understanding how the brain organizes complex human behaviors. He is currently the primary investigator on a Templeton Advanced Research Program grant from the Metanexus Institute to study, "Music, Spirituality, Religion, and the Human Brain."
James D. Lane, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Duke University Medical Center
Dr. Lane received his bachelorÍs degree in physics from Gettysburg College and earned his masterÍs and Ph.D. in physiological psychology at UCLA. He joined the faculty of Duke University Medical Center in 1979.
Trained as a psychophysiologist, Dr. Lane has been active in the fields of biofeedback and behavioral medicine throughout his career. He has focused his attention on factors and behaviors that are important in health and disease including Type A behavior, hostility, stress reactivity, smoking, and caffeine consumption. In recent years, he has discovered that caffeine exaggerates stress responses and may contribute to public health problems of hypertension and type 2 diabetes through effects on blood pressure and hyperglycemia.
Dr. Lane has a long-standing interest in the use of binaural auditory beats for the control of the brain and behavior. He published the first peer-reviewed study of the effects of binaural beat stimulation, in which he identified changes in sustained attention and mood associated with stimulation at different frequencies within the EEG band. He continues to pursue this line of basic research and to develop research protocols to test the clinical applications of the technology.
Edward W. Large, Ph.D., Visiting Fulbright Chair in the Science and Technology of Music, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), Schulich School of Music of McGill University; Computer and Information Science, Associate Professor, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Florida Atlantic University.
Edward W. Large is an Associate Professor at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University. He serves as Associate Editor of the journal Music Perception. He serves on the scientific advisory board of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function. He is also the founder of Circular Logic, a music software company based in Boca Raton, FL.
Dr. Large's research addresses the question of how the brain responds to complex, temporally structured sequences of events, such as music and speech. His research program combines dynamical systems modeling, behavioral experimentation, neurophysiology and neuroimaging. Current projects include perception of rhythm, perception of pitch, perception of tonality, perception of song, and emotional responses to music.
Recently, Dr. Large reported the discovery of human brain activity that anticipates events in rhythms such as those found in music and speech. He observed that peaks in the power of cortical brain activity predict both the timing and intensity of events such as notes (in music) and syllables (in speech). Moreover, when some events are unexpectedly left out of a sequence, the timing and power of cortical activity remains unchanged, as if an event actually appeared.
Daniel J. Levitin, Ph.D. is associate professor of psychology at McGill University, where he holds a James McGill Chair, the Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communication, and the FQRNT Strategic Chair in Psychology. He is an Associate member of the School of Computer Science, Department of Music Theory, Program in Sound Recording, Program in Music Technology, Department of Educational & Counseling Psychology, and Department of Integrated Studies in Education. He earned his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology with a Ph.D. minor in Music Technology from the University of Oregon with Mike Posner, his B.A. from Stanford in cognitive psychology with Roger Shepard, and did post-doctoral training in psychoacoustics at Interval Research Corporation and in neuroimaging at Stanford University. He has also studied at M.I.T., UC Berkeley, and Berklee College of Music.
As a musician (tenor saxophone, guitar and bass), he has performed with Mel Tormé, Nancy Wilson, and members of the Steve Miller Band and Santana. Levitin served as Vice President of Artists & Repertoire at 415/Columbia Records (now Sony Records) from 1984- 1988, as President in 1989. After 415 was sold to Sony, Levitin ran a successful production and consulting company whose clients included every major American record label and several film companies. He has produced or consulted on albums by artists including Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, and Blue Öyster Cult.
From 1996 - 1998 he worked at Interval Research Corporation, the Silicon Valley think tank owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, collaborating with computer industry pioneers, including the inventors of the laptop computer, the laser printer, and the computer mouse. At Interval, Levitin developed new musical instrument controllers currently in use by Laurie Anderson and Michael Brook, and performed seminal research on music recommendation engines. In 1999, he helped to form one of the first internet music distribution companies, MoodLogic, which sold to the AMG group in May 2006. He has served as a consultant for the U.S. Navy Underwater Weapons Station, Apple Computer, Sirius Satellite Radio, and Philips Consumer Electronics. In 2000, Levitin became a founding member of McGill University's Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), for which he helped to obtain $50 million in external funding.
Levitin has published more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and over 300 popular articles about music and music technology in commercial and trade magazines including Billboard, Electronic Musician, Mix, and Grammy. For his technical and marketing contributions to the recording industry, Levitin has been awarded 12 gold or platinum records, and two of his projects received Oscar nominations. He currently directs the McGill Laboratory for the Study of Music Cognition, Perception and Expertise. He is the author of the international best-selling book "This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession" (Penguin, 2006).
Scott Makeig, Ph.D., Director, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience Institute for Nerual Computation, University of California, San Diego
Scott Makeig received a B.A. from Berkeley, "Self in Experience," and a Ph.D. from UCSD in "Music Psychobiology." His research has focused on application of advanced signal processing models to human brain dynamics data (EEG, MEG, fMRI, ECOG).>
He and colleagues were the first to apply independent component analysis (ICA) to EEG data (1996) and, with Martin McKeown, to fMRI data (1998). He has developed, with Arnaud Delorme and colleagues, and distributes the widely-used open source EEGLAB and FMRLAB environments for electrophysiological and functional imaging data analysis.
The UCSD Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, which he now directs, develops and applies new computational approaches to modeling macroscopic brain dynamics, including current applications to the study of memory, emotion, attention, learning, autism, aging, epilepsy, and realtime cognitive monitoring and control.
Vinod Menon, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Program in Neuroscience & Neuroscience Institute at Stanford
Dr. Menon is the author of 77 publications, and the recipient of many academic awards. His research interests include Cognitive neuroscience, Cognitive development, Psychiatric neuroscience, Functional brain imaging, Dynamical basis of brain function, and Nonlinear dynamics of neural systems.
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Harold Russell, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist, University of Texas, Adjunct research professor in the Department of Gerontology and Health Promotion at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
Harold L. Russell is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Galveston, Texas. He is an adjunct research professor in the Department of Gerontology and Health Promotion at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
Dr. Russell's current research is focused on investigating the use of EEG-driven auditory and visual stimulation as a safe, effective and inexpensive means of improving brain functioning in children, adolescents or adults at different socioeconomic levels.
About the potential outcomes of the symposium, Dr. Russell writes, "Combining current technology with the creativity, musical and scientific knowledge available at this symposium could result in the finding of increasingly effective and inexpensive ways of using music on an everyday basis as a practical and widely acceptable tool to improve brain functioning."
Rebecca Schaefer, M.S., Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Rebecca Schaefer finished her first Msc in Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Amsterdam in 2003, followed by an Msc in Music Psychology at Keele University in the United Kingdom.
Ms. Schaefer's research interests include the neuroscience of perception and imagery, and the impact of learning and experience on basic perceptual processing mechanisms. She is currently working towards her PhD at Radboud University at Nijmegen, the Netherlands in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) research. Her focus is in the EEG correlates and utility of time-structured stimuli and cognitive tasks.
Dave Siever, C.E.T.
Dave Siever, C.E.T., has a background as an engineering technologist. He later worked in the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Alberta teaching classes and designing TMJ Dysfunction related diagnostic equipment and research facilities. While at the University, Mr. Siever noted anxiety issues in many patients suffering with TMJ dysfunction. This led him to study and design biofeedback devices, which he later applied to TMJ patients.
In 1984, Siever designed his first audio-visual entrainment (AVE) device - the "Digital Audio-visual Integration Device," or DAVID1. Siever has been researching and refining AVE technology since, specifically for use in relaxation, treating anxiety, depression, PMS, ADD, FMS, SAD, pain, cognitive decline and insomnia. Siever also designs Cranio-Electro Stimulation (CES) and biofeedback devices and continues to conduct research and design new products relating to personal growth and development.
Matt Wright
Matthew Wright, PhD Candidate, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University. In addition to his student work at Stanford, he continues to work as the Musical Systems Designer at UC Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technology (CNMAT).
Mr. Wright's dissertation research concerns models of musical rhythm, including onsets, repetition, pulsation, meter, and phrasing. His interests are both theoretical and practical, aimed towards computer simulation of perceptual aspects of listening to musical rhythm for the construction of "automatic listeners". He is also an accomplished musician, focusing for the last many years on musics of non-Western cultures, with a special interest in Afro-Brazilian percussion and on the musics of India, Afghanistan, the Middle East, and North Africa.