Harmony of the Spheres

Harmony of the Spheres (in the Style of Gustav Klimt), as rendered by DreamAI

A 1-day (Templeton-funded) interdisciplinary workshop on the broad theme of musica universalis, looking at several of the many ways this idea is understood. Location: Peppers Gallery Hotel, Canberra. Date: 16th January.

  • 9:00-9:15 Introductions and Welcome.
  • 9:15-10:00 Dean Rickles (Sydney): Music, Meter, Microcosm, and Macrocosm.
  • 10:00-10:45 Ken Parry (Macquarie): The Problem for Pythagoras and the Harmony of the Spheres
  • 10:45-11:00 Tea break
  • 11:00-11:45 Ange Weinrabe (Sydney): Music and Health
  • 11:45-12:30 Kim Cunio (ANU): Working with the ‘Sounds’ of Space as a Composer
  • 12:30-1:30 Lunch
  • 1:30-2:15 Tom Cochrane (Flinders): Music, Harmony, and the Emotions
  • 2:15-3:00 Goetz Richter (Sydney) Music and Demonic – Are we Concerned about Artificial Intelligence in Music
  • 3:00-3:15 Tea break
  • 3:15-4:00 Harald Atmanspacher (Turing Centre, Zurich): Trinity and Quaternity from Kepler-Fludd to Pauli-Jung
  • 4:00-4:45 Anna McDonald (ANU): Mithraism and Music
  • 7:00 Dinner at the Hotel, with a recital by Ensemble of the Eternal Land