Converge: Toronto Creative Conference

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Is music art or science - or both? In Composing for Humans, Jason Mile explores the relationship between cognitive studies of rhythmic entrainment - the synchronizing of neural activity to rhythmic stimuli - and compositional choices in writing Entrainment, a 20-minute work in seven movements for six percussionists. He will also explain how movement explores a different aspect of how the human brain processes rhythmic and metric information. If you'd like to learn more about how you listen to rhythm, join us Sunday at 10:00am!

Our Keynote presentation will be this Saturday, September 21st at 5:30.

Sri Lankan-born Canadian Dinuk Wijeratne is a JUNO and multi-award-winning composer, conductor, and pianist who has been described by the Toronto Star as ‘an artist who reflects a positive vision of our cultural future’, and by the New York Times as ‘exuberantly creative’. His boundary-crossing work sees him equally at home in collaborations with symphony orchestras and string quartets, tabla players and DJs, and takes him to international venues as poles apart as the Berlin Philharmonie and the North Sea Jazz Festival. Dinuk trained at the RNCM (UK), at the Juilliard School under John Corigliano, and later earned a doctorate at UofT under Christos Hatzis. He was featured as a main character in 'What would Beethoven do?' - the documentary about innovation in Classical music featuring Eric Whitacre, Bobby McFerrin and Ben Zander. His music and collaborative work embrace the great diversity of his international background and influences.