Lullabyte es un proyecto Europeo MSCA de red de doctorados que reúne a investigadores líderes de los ámbitos de la musicología, la investigación del sueño, la neurociencia y la informática para investigar los efectos de la música en el sueño. Phonos es uno de los miembros del consorcio. Dentro del proyecto, diez doctorandos, de 10 instituciones de distintos países europeos, se forman en un campo de investigación interdisciplinar y adquieren profundas habilidades relevantes para la industria y los sectores de la salud y la cultura.

Del 28 de junio al 5 de julio, el Music Technology Group de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra acoge la escuela de verano Lullabyte, que reunirá a los doctorandos y sus tutores, y en la que Phonos colabora. La escuela de verano incluye una semana de conferencias, encuentros, presentación de pósters y conciertos. En total, hay unas 20 actividades, la mayoría sólo para los miembros del proyecto, pero las siguientes actividades serán abiertas a todo el mundo y gratuitas:

Seminarios:

Sábado 29 de junio, 11:30h - Sala 20.017, UPF Campus Ciutadella. (Sesión en inglés)

"Did you get it? What sort of information does music encode and how?", by Dr. Felix Pastor, composer and professor at ESMUC.

Abstract: Music is a sort-of-language. It makes sounds but it has no words. We can listen to it, we can speak it, and most of the time even write it. But what sort of information does it encode and how? How do we know 'we got it'? What did we get? By diving into three examples from the Classical and Avantgarde repertoire, we'll get a sense of the role that pitch, melody, harmony, rhythm and form play in creating a musical piece and what views of the world are encoded in it.

Lunes 1 de julio, 10:00h – Sala 52.S25, UPF Campus Poblenou. (Sesión en inglés)

"Consciousness in the electrical brain", by Dr. Aureli Soria-Frisch, Director Neuroscience BU at Starlab Barcelona SL. 

Abstract: Inspired by recent developments in neuroscience and the potential role of fundamental concepts such as information, complexity, emergence and the electrical brain we aim to study, model, quantify, and eventually alter observable aspects of consciousness.  Our vision is that consciousness will someday be electromagnetically measured and altered, and that the associated needed insights will prove crucial to the development of cognitive sciences and clinical applications.

Martes 2 de julio, 18:00h - Sala 52.S25, UPF Campus Poblenou. (Sesión en inglés)

"The Thermodynamics of Mind", by Gustavo Deco, professor and director of the Computational Neuroscience group at the UPF.

Abstract: Finding precise signatures of different brain states is a central, unsolved question in neuroscience. The difference in brain state can be described as differences in the detailed causal interactions found in the underlying intrinsic brain dynamics. We use a thermodynamics framework to quantify the breaking of the detailed balance captured by the level of asymmetry in temporal processing, i.e. the arrow of time. We also formulate a novel whole-brain model paradigm allowing us to derive the generative underlying mechanisms for changing the arrow of time between brain regions in different conditions. We found precise, distinguishing signatures in terms of the reversibility and hierarchy of large-scale dynamics in three radically different brain states (cognition, rest, deep sleep and anaesthesia) in fMRI and electrocorticography data from human and non-human primates. Overall, this provides signatures of the breaking of detailed balance in different brain states, reflecting different levels of computation.

Concierto de Reactable

Lunes 1 de julio, 18:30h – Sala Aranyó, UPF Campus Poblenou

Suhit Chiruthapudi y Alex Vilanova (estudiantes del máster SMC) ofrecerán un concierto de Reactable. El Reactable es un instrumento musical electrónico con una interfaz de usuario tangible de sobremesa que se desarrolló dentro del MTG en 2003-2005. En este breve concierto (45') Suhit Chiruthapudi y Alex Vilanova demostrarán las capacidades creativas de este instrumento.

Concierto Nocturno (Sleep Concert)

Jueves 4 de julio, 21:00h – Sala Aranyó, UPF Campus Poblenou

https://www.upf.edu/web/phonos/inici/-/asset_publisher/6o5hhSb6iSMy/content/concert-nocturn-lullabyte/maximized