This year's Symposium on Music and the Brain centers around Sound, Space, and Spirituality will feature guest speakers Alaa Algargosh (MIT), Stella Nair and Alba Menendez Pareda (both from UCLA), and our own CCRMA acoustics, VR, and spelunking magicians – Luna Valentin, Nima Farzaneh, and Eito Murikami. 

We hope you'll join us for an afternoon of exploring how sound studies inform our understanding of human behavior, paleontology, archaeology, and musicology.

Presentations:

• Aural Architecture and Well-Being – Alaa Algargosh
• A House for Listening – Stella Nair
• Hearing Inca Sacredness – Alba Menendez
• Reanimating Lost Spaces – Luna Valentin, Nima Farzaneh, Eito Murikami

Admission Information

• Free admission.
• Parking permits are required for weekday campus parking. We recommend downloading the ParkMobile app before arriving.
• Stanford University guidelines now state that masks are no longer required, but are strongly recommended. We encourage you to continue wearing masks for the comfort of our patrons, staff, and artists. Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test will no longer be required.