Creature Carnival Nightlife

Open your ears and your soul-this week we're exploring the intersection of sound and emotion with help from swissnex San Francisco. At interactive stations set up by scientist Eduardo Coutinho, listen to a plant make music, and explore how emotions are expressed differently in music and the human voice. See NeuroDisco, a 7 foot tall mind-controlled music and light installation by Dr. Erica Warp, Richard Warp and Chung-Hay Luk. Explore how your ears (along with your nose and mouth) affect the experience of wine tasting at 7:30 and 8:30 (note: capacity at tastings is limited).  Didier Grandjean, expert in the neuropsychology of emotion, will give a talk on the "Bliss of the Beat" at 8:30. Listen to bird songs curated by the Academy's own Ore Carmi at the Project Lab, and in the planetarium, catch a special screening of the math-meets-music show Chaos and Order at 6:30, followed by Earthquake at 7:30 and 8:30. Musicologist and pianist Steffen Schmidt will perform "Piano and Soundscape," and "Noise and the Digital Stethoscope" in the coral reef. Slayers Club DJs will play sets built around a different emotion each hour.

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