JoAnn Kuchera-Morin - The AlloSphere, a deeper integration of art and science, and the new senses we need now

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is a composer. But the music she writes is more than mere notes; it embraces art and science and engineering and finds new frontiers at the intersection of them all. Her 'music' is both song and her research into new modes of immersive, interactive scientific and artistic investigation. Through art as with science, her work seeks to create as she says, "an exponential rise in consciousness."

Show Notes:

• Pythagoras - a rock is music frozen in time (09:00)
• Evolving according to where our culture is (11:20)
• Iannis Xenakis (12:30) 
• Peripersonal and Extrapersonal space (15:40)
• AlloSphere (17:00 and 36:00)
  • TED Talk - a new way to see
  • Data sonification 
  • Origins episode #7 with Matt Russo
• Buddhist principle of impermanence (22:10)
• In Love with the World by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (23:00)
• New field of "Digital Multimedia" (28:30)
  • Computer science and electrical engineering
  • Signal processing and programming
  • Music and visual arts
• Media Arts and Technology Program (29:50)
• Proprioception (39:10)
• Paideia (40:30)
• How do we go from the familiar to the strange? (47:00)
• Morning routine (48:00)
• The Impersonal Life by Joseph Benner (49:00)
• Bardo (53:30)
• Lightning Round (54:00)
  • Book: 
    • Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
    • The Simarillion by JRR Tolkien
  • Passion: Running, riding, exercise on a mountain
  • Heart sing: the AlloSphere and the proximity to the frontier of science and art; Students dreams
  • Screwed up: Preoccupation with work over family
• Find JoAnn online:
  • Website
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  
  • JoAnn’s playlist