[sent on behalf of Dr Neta Spiro]
Dear Musical Care International Network members,
We are delighted to invite you to the inaugural Musical Care in Dialogue session hosted by the Musical Care International Network.
Filippo Bonini Baraldi (NOVA University, Lisbon) and Dave Camlin (Royal College of Music) will be talking about 'Love and Empathy in Musical Care'. The session will be chaired by Giorgos Tsiris (Queen Margaret University). More information about the theme and speakers is below.
Date: Monday 13th May 2024
Time: 09:30 - 10:30 (BST)
Zoom link:
https://imperial-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99598418518?pwd=V2J3c3h3cVk3UjFUS1hndFNoN0U3dz09
Meeting ID: 995 9841 8518
Passcode: p!5A.k
The session will begin with short presentations by each of the speakers followed by open discussion. As ever with Network meetings, we look forward to lively discussion.
The session will be recorded and shared among network members in the first instance.
Please do share this invitation with your networks.
For new members, please register for email updates about Network events, including future Musical Care in Dialogue sessions here: https://imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0ocwfSmXzZL32Qe. More information about the network is available here: https://musicalcareresearch.com/musical-care-network/.
Best wishes,
Neta, Bonnie, and Katie Rose
Bio and topics:
Filippo Bonini Baraldi is Principal Researcher (CEEC_ind) at the Instituto de Etnomusicologia (INET-md) of NOVA University, Lisbon (Portugal), where he leads the research group "Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies" , and associate member of the Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (Crem-LESC) of Université Paris Nanterre (France). His researches on music, emotion, and health, based on long term fieldworks in Romania, Italy, and Brazil, are strongly interdisciplinary and combine methods of ethnomusicology, music computing, and cognitive sciences. His book "Roma Music and Emotion" , (Oxford UP, 2021) has been awarded the ICTM book prize (honorable mention) and the William A. Douglas Prize in Europeanist Anthropology (Society for the Anthropology of Europe, a section of the American Anthropological Association).
In this short talk, I will show how the Transylvania Roma (Gypsies) perform "personal songs" with the aim of establishing an intersubjective relationship with somebody who is otherwise absent or has passed away. In some cases, performing "personal songs" provokes a sort of emotional crisis which is intended as having a cathartic effect. I understand this emotional crisis as the co-presence of two opposite psychological states: a heightened sense of emotional and corporeal proximity with one's "brothers" and a heightened sense of emotional and physical separation from the beloved of the family. Music renders feasible this "oscillation" between these two opposite psychological realities as it builds a "collective body" where everyone is close and equal to the other while simultaneously enabling one to feel the absence of a part of the community. I will also suggest that this same process is at stake in other healing rituals the world around.
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Dr. Dave Camlin's musical practice spans performance, composition, teaching, Community Music (CM) and research. He lectures in music education at the Royal College of Music and Trinity-Laban Conservatoire and was Head of HE / Research at Sage Gateshead from 2010-19. His research interests include: CM, especially group singing; music, health and wellbeing; musician education. He has pioneered the use of Sensemaker® 'distributed ethnography' as a research method for understanding artistic and cultural experiences. His recent book Music Making and Civic Imagination: a Holistic Philosophy explores the potential of musicing as both a complex adaptive system (CAS) and a global resource for sustainability.
In my provocation, I'll suggest that the notion of 'love-in-action' arises in music making through the complex ways in which music makers 'tune in' to each other, both musically and neurobiologically, leading to a sense of 'feeling felt' through 'self-other' merging. I'll point to previous research where one participant suggested music making represented a kind of 'safe danger' for experiencing intimacy, because it provides opportunities for psychological and neurobiological intimacy which the participants have some degree of control over. I'll also raise some of the ontological and epistemological challenges of thinking about love and music making in this way, given that these experiences of intimacy are highly individualised and not susceptible to measurement or comparison owing to their complex entanglement with other biological, psychological, social, behavioural and musical mechanisms.
Dear Musical Care International Network members,
We are delighted to invite you to the inaugural Musical Care in Dialogue session hosted by the Musical Care International Network.
Filippo Bonini Baraldi (NOVA University, Lisbon) and Dave Camlin (Royal College of Music) will be talking about 'Love and Empathy in Musical Care'. The session will be chaired by Giorgos Tsiris (Queen Margaret University). More information about the theme and speakers is below.
Date: Monday 13th May 2024
Time: 09:30 - 10:30 (BST)
Zoom link:
https://imperial-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99598418518?pwd=V2J3c3h3cVk3UjFUS1hndFNoN0U3dz09
Meeting ID: 995 9841 8518
Passcode: p!5A.k
The session will begin with short presentations by each of the speakers followed by open discussion. As ever with Network meetings, we look forward to lively discussion.
The session will be recorded and shared among network members in the first instance.
Please do share this invitation with your networks.
For new members, please register for email updates about Network events, including future Musical Care in Dialogue sessions here: https://imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0ocwfSmXzZL32Qe. More information about the network is available here: https://musicalcareresearch.com/musical-care-network/.
Best wishes,
Neta, Bonnie, and Katie Rose
Bio and topics:
Filippo Bonini Baraldi is Principal Researcher (CEEC_ind) at the Instituto de Etnomusicologia (INET-md) of NOVA University, Lisbon (Portugal), where he leads the research group "Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies" , and associate member of the Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (Crem-LESC) of Université Paris Nanterre (France). His researches on music, emotion, and health, based on long term fieldworks in Romania, Italy, and Brazil, are strongly interdisciplinary and combine methods of ethnomusicology, music computing, and cognitive sciences. His book "Roma Music and Emotion" , (Oxford UP, 2021) has been awarded the ICTM book prize (honorable mention) and the William A. Douglas Prize in Europeanist Anthropology (Society for the Anthropology of Europe, a section of the American Anthropological Association).
In this short talk, I will show how the Transylvania Roma (Gypsies) perform "personal songs" with the aim of establishing an intersubjective relationship with somebody who is otherwise absent or has passed away. In some cases, performing "personal songs" provokes a sort of emotional crisis which is intended as having a cathartic effect. I understand this emotional crisis as the co-presence of two opposite psychological states: a heightened sense of emotional and corporeal proximity with one's "brothers" and a heightened sense of emotional and physical separation from the beloved of the family. Music renders feasible this "oscillation" between these two opposite psychological realities as it builds a "collective body" where everyone is close and equal to the other while simultaneously enabling one to feel the absence of a part of the community. I will also suggest that this same process is at stake in other healing rituals the world around.
..........................................
Dr. Dave Camlin's musical practice spans performance, composition, teaching, Community Music (CM) and research. He lectures in music education at the Royal College of Music and Trinity-Laban Conservatoire and was Head of HE / Research at Sage Gateshead from 2010-19. His research interests include: CM, especially group singing; music, health and wellbeing; musician education. He has pioneered the use of Sensemaker® 'distributed ethnography' as a research method for understanding artistic and cultural experiences. His recent book Music Making and Civic Imagination: a Holistic Philosophy explores the potential of musicing as both a complex adaptive system (CAS) and a global resource for sustainability.
In my provocation, I'll suggest that the notion of 'love-in-action' arises in music making through the complex ways in which music makers 'tune in' to each other, both musically and neurobiologically, leading to a sense of 'feeling felt' through 'self-other' merging. I'll point to previous research where one participant suggested music making represented a kind of 'safe danger' for experiencing intimacy, because it provides opportunities for psychological and neurobiological intimacy which the participants have some degree of control over. I'll also raise some of the ontological and epistemological challenges of thinking about love and music making in this way, given that these experiences of intimacy are highly individualised and not susceptible to measurement or comparison owing to their complex entanglement with other biological, psychological, social, behavioural and musical mechanisms.
