About me
My name is Beau Sievers. I’m a composer, improviser, programmer, writer and music cognition researcher. I’m interested in how the act of listening changes the way we hear; not only on a referential, symbolic or narrative level, but also in the structure and function of our bodies and brains. I want to make music that engenders perceptual transformation, music which plays with our senses of time, space, and movement.
As a researcher, I’m pursuing questions about this transformative process. How and why does the perception of music interface with our understanding of time, space, and motion? How does perception change with the allocation of attention? What can we learn about emotion and the brain from the eliciting power of music? Further, how did our musical capacities evolve, and do they serve an evolutionary function?
I am currently a Masters candidate in the Electro-Acoustic Music program at Dartmouth College, where I am collaborating with Thalia Wheatley and Larry Polansky on a study of the relationship between music and biological motion.