What is Music For?
What Is Music For?
We spend our lives listening to music, but rarely stop to ask what is actually happening when we do.
This is a small, in-person listening session built around that question. Through vinyl selections and live biofeedback, we’ll explore how music registers in the body - emotionally, physically, and perceptually - as it unfolds.
This isn’t a concert or a lecture. It’s a shared discussion and experiment in listening.
With Ben Ratliff (NYTimes) + Revanth Reddy (CML Lab)
Moderated by Carol Gimbel
WFMU radio host, musician & researcher
📍 Rhythmic Arts Center
🗓 April 30, 7pm
Ben Ratliff is a former music critic for the New York Times, New York University professor and author of books including Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening; Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty; and Coltrane: The Story of a Sound.
PhD Candidate Revanth Reddy from the NYU Computational Medicine Laboratory will be demonstrating wearable devices that graph in real time biofeedback responses to music.
Thank you for the generous support of the NYU Changemaker Collective
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