Please note that this is an in-person only event.

This event is part of a new Japan Forum series tied to the theme “The Soundtrack of Thought,” motivated by the idea that while sounds are occasionally the object of academic presentations (e.g., the analysis of a musical piece) they are hardly ever integrated into the presentation itself, shaping the cognitive affect of a talk in the way that they do – often quite powerfully and effectively – in recorded podcasts, movies, or occasionally art installations. The aim of the new series is to explore the following questions: How might an academic presentation incorporate not just live speech and the display of images and text, but also sounds (from daily life, music, voices, etc.)? How can sounds work not only as the objects of analysis, but as part of the atmospheric frame within which speech and images are understood? Ultimately, the goal of this series is to discover new horizons of presentation through playful experimentation with sound.