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in collaboration with Stanford MUSIC and the BRAIN Symposium RECONSTRUCTING BEETHOVEN'S IMPROVISATIONS Reconstructing Beethoven's Improvisations is an invitational Symposium with five to ADVISORY seven top experts who are equipped to re-imagine, reconstruct, and imagine BOARD beyond Beethoven's improvised music. The agenda of the workshop is to: Margaret Minsky Multimedia Consultant • understand the mind; in particular how improvisation informs us about music and mind. Jonathan Berger • understand improvisation's role in musical genius, journeyman music, and the The Denning Family Provostial roles and skills of musicians. Professor in Music. Stanford University • reconstruct or reimagine Beethoven's improvising, which he was known to do frequently both in public and private. Cynthia Solomon • reconstruct or reimagine the relationship of Beethoven's improvisation process to Educational Technology Consultant his composition process. • discuss and play with ideas about improvisation, thinking, and learning. Teresa Marrin Nakra Associate Professor of Music.The Coiege of New Jersey. Marvin Minsky's ideas about thinking, his life in music as a classical improvisor, and his paper "Music, Mind, and Meaning", are inspirations for this symposium. Michael Hawley EG Conference Leader. First The music world and popular conception of Beethoven seems to be moving away Place Van Clibum Competition. Explorer from the former caricature of Beethoven as an angry, lonely genius toward a more nuanced view: that Beethoven was a driven artist with a loyal pack of friends and Tom Vignieri active social life. Some go further and take the view that he invented many of the Composer, Music Director of NPR's 'From the Top" Radio 20th century music ideas (and then some!). Show Tod Machover The Symposium will take place Oct 29, 2014. The venue will be the MIT Media Lab Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Complex, Amherst St, Cambridge, MA, USA. Music and Media. M1 Media Lab A small (about 50) participatory audience of faculty, performers, and graduate students will be invited to attend. Contact: Margaret Minsk EFTA00606087