Music, Emotions and Science
Music is part of everyday life, but there is still much to ask about what happens when we listen. Why can a piece stay with us? Why might a voice, a rhythm or a familiar song feel so immediate?
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Music, Emotions and Science is a place for those questions. Through conversations with people working in this field, Music Will Save The World brings research into a public space: plainly spoken, open to curiosity and connected to the ways people experience music for themselves.
Professor Jörg Fachner
of the Cambridge Institute for
Music Therapy Research, ARU
Our first featured conversation is with Professor Jörg Fachner of the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, ARU.
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The discussion offers a way into the subject without assuming specialist knowledge. It follows the connections between music, emotion and the ways we respond to sound, inviting viewers to consider both the research and their own experience of listening.
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Timestamps available when watched on YouTube – simply click on the word 'YouTube' in the bottom right corner
More voices, more questions
This page will grow slowly. Future conversations may bring in other scientists, alongside listeners from different backgrounds, so that research and lived experience can sit alongside one another without being confused for the same thing.
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Come back to discover new conversations and interviews exploring music and its effects on the body, brain and mind.