"Traditional music is the 'root' music that links the past, present and future. The music of the metaverse will shock the soul in an unprecedented way. There is a medium for the voice propagation in the real world, , but in the metaverse, sound propagation may be realized through the state of thoughts, which can be integrated into technological elements to create a sense of fantasy and break through the boundaries of people in the real world." On the afternoon of November 29, the famous composer and conductor, a distinguished professor of the Department of Music Engineering of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, UNESCO Global Culture Ambassador, and the dean of the Bard Conservatory of Music in New York Tan Dun , at the international forum on "Neurotechnology Connecting Music and Brain" co-organized by Tianqiao Brain Research Institute and Shanghai Conservatory of Music , the international forum connected music and the metaverse in a unique way.
How does music regulate our emotions? What exactly will music therapy bring to our future? More than 10 well-known scientists and musicians from China, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, , Ireland, and shared and exchanged with more than 300,000 online audiences.
Although Dunhuang murals are just pictures, they can "sound without drumming", expressing the tone and volume of the music through the picture. Tan Dun's team provides
[A Parkinson's patient, dancing with music]
The role of music in regulating emotions is a well-known fact. 60,000 years ago, the ancients began to play music together. "Recent studies have confirmed that music can play an imaginative important role in the treatment of major diseases such as stroke , Parkinson's, and anxiety disorders by regulating the mechanism of neural activity. is new." Professor Gerwin Schalk, the host of the conference and director of the Frontier Laboratory of Applied Neurological Technology at the Tianqiao Brain Science Institute, shared a video of an elderly Parkinson's patient who had a very difficult walking, after receiving music treatment, can not only walk by himself, but also dance with the rhythm of the music.
Professor Gerwin Schalk, Director of the Frontier Laboratory of Applied Neurology, Tianqiao Brain Science Institute, Professor
, Director of the Swarts Center for Computational Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, and Researcher Scott Makeig, Ph.D., said that in different musical environments, people can be stimulated with different emotions, and tones, harmonies and melodies play an important role. Human sympathetic nerve can read feelings about different things from hearing and vision, which is also the reason why humans are sensitive to art such as music and painting. "We can choose EEG to record and feedback people's emotions to study the impact of music on the brain."
Assistant Professor Teng Xiangbin, Department of Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said that music is a time machine. When people listen to music, the brain will follow the existing music melody to make psychological expectations and predictions, and will provide a new perspective for studying the brain.
The American Academy of Music and The University of San Francisco faculty member Dr. Indre Viskontas, compares music to the "Swiss Army Knife", believes that music can serve as a multi-purpose tool, showing different functions according to different human scenes, feelings and demands.
Interestingly, Dr. Alex Khalil, lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Cork in Ireland, found that people from different cultural backgrounds have different perceptions of music beats .
In response to the anxiety problems that are common in modern society, Dr. Ding Yue, associate researcher at Shanghai Mental Health Center , said that the brain will fluctuate dynamically with changes in music, and music rhythm can regulate nerve oscillation and improve anxiety symptoms.
Dr. Thomas Fritz, professor of the Department of Neurology at the MaxPhotos Institute of Human Cognition and Brain Science in Germany, believes that music also has a positive effect on healthy people. can regulate hormone levels, make people's muscles more relaxed, motivated and creative, and feel more relaxed in their work. At the same time, when people can control the music, the feeling will be even more wonderful.
[ aphasia patients "sing" words that could not be expressed originally]
People can't help but ask, can they "use joy as medicine"? What are the new breakthroughs in music therapy right now?
"The integration of music and neuroscience has been included in the national key scientific research project for the first time this year, and is increasingly receiving attention." Professor Mao Ying, dean of Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University and director of the Transformation Center of Tianqiao Brain Research Institute, said in his opening speech that the Tianqiao Brain Research Institute and Huashan Hospital are collaborating on research on music improving sleep quality and relieving bad emotions, and have achieved initial results.
Professor Mao Ying, director of Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University and director of the Translation Center of Tianqiao Brain Research Institute
Professor Robert Knight, professor of psychology, neuroscience, and neurology at the University of California, Berkeley, said that music therapy for neurological diseases has become an emerging trend. Through case sharing, he showed how aphasia patients accurately say words that could not be expressed in the original way through singing. This phenomenon shows that the brain has a different decoding method for music than language . He found that the brain's response and analysis to music are mainly concentrated in the right half of the brain.
Dr. Pablo Ripolles, assistant professor of the Department of Psychology and Department of Music and Performing Arts at New York University in the United States, introduced that by conducting music therapy trials on 20 patients with stroke , it was found that can significantly improve the patient's motor function by only 20 30-minute music therapy sessions, , and can also improve positive emotions and relieve anxiety and depression.
Professor Yu Yang, director of the Music Engineering Department and composer of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, introduced that since 2020, Shangyin has cooperated with many well-known hospitals in Shanghai to promote music therapy . During the COVID-19 pandemic, they provided meditation rehabilitation music physiotherapy solutions. uses Guqin and to help relax the mood. The results show that it can effectively alleviate the anxiety of medical staff. Another collaborative research project in shows that music can improve fear and anxiety in cancer patients and improve quality of life.
Dr Andrew Jackson, professor of neurointerfaces at Newcastle University in the UK, provides a theoretical basis for music therapy by studying the natural connection mechanism between music frequency and brain oscillation. He has developed a music synthesis system that can flexibly respond to the brain. According to ongoing brain wave oscillations, the characteristics of auditory stimulation in real time are adjusted, thereby confirming the stimulation of the brain by different intensities of music.
Shanghai Conservatory of Music National Chamber Orchestra performed
during the break of the meeting, "Art and science always break up at the foot of the mountain, and finally meet on the top of the mountain." Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Conservatory of Music Cao Rongrui Professor cited Flaubert's famous quote, hoping that through this innovative academic exchange, music and technology can be better combined.
, founder of Tianqiao Brain Science Institute, , Chen Tianqiao , said: " Music and the brain have always been a cutting-edge cross-border topic that Tianqiao Brain Science Institute and I are very concerned about." He said that he will continue to hold a series of academic conferences on this topic to attract scientists and artists around the world to conduct exchanges and discussions.
In addition to the signature, the pictures in the article are provided by Tianqiao Brain Research Institute
Source: Author: Huang Haihua
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