Tuning the Brain with Music (2020)
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Association québécoise de musicothérapie
Institute of Music and Neurologic Function
BRAMS – International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research
Montreal General Hospital’s music therapy program
The autistic brain - Temple Grandin
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The healing powers of music on the brain deserve to be recognized and above all heard. Tuning the Brain with Music allows us to discover cutting-edge research in musical neuroscience through the stories of people for whom music has succeeded where other therapies have not. The film alternates between neuroscientific research, music therapists in session and true stories retold by those who have been transformed by music.
Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, Oncologist
Director’s statement
I have been researching and working on this film for over five years. How our brains hear, process and store music and sounds for decades, independently from time passing it seems, is a process that has intrigued me since early childhood. As a matter of fact, most of my father’s siblings and their children were born deaf. But not him. I just couldn’t understand how this could happen to a family and I always felt extremely grateful I was born hearing while many of my cousins struggled growing up in the hearing world. Doing the research for this film has permitted me to meet top neuroscientists that have dedicated their lives to discovering how our brains store, recognize and remember music for what seems like forever. The other aspect that attracted me to this subject was the obvious but still unexplained powerful healing powers of music on the mental health and overall well being of people who’s lives had been saved by music. I thus embarked on a journey to find these people and have them tell me their personal story and special relationship to music. Their amazing and moving life stories have changed mine forever.
Credits
Director Isabelle Raynauld
Producer Frederic Bohbot
Editor Carl Freed
Composer Luc Sicard & Martin Roy
Line Producer Valerie Shamash
Distributed by FilmOption International
Produced in association with Telus Fund, Rogers Documentary Fund, SODEC, Radio-Canada
Specifications
Genre: Documentary
Category: Science, Human interest
Production year: 2019
Language: English, French
Duration: 52/ 78 minutes
Delivery Format: Electronic File, DCP, BlueRay
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