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Through a grant from the PBS program THE MUSIC INSTINCT: Science & Song, KEET-TV and the Humboldt Arts Council/Morris Graves Museum of Art are offering families a day of exploration of the science of sound and music. The goal of the program is to promote a deeper understanding of the relationships between music and science, and to encourage further student exploration of both.

Join KEET for THE MUSIC INSTINCT at Family Arts Day at the Morris Graves Museum of Art.

Family Arts Day

Saturday, April 10 form 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Morris Graves Museum of Art

636 F Street, Eureka

AkaBella will explore the ways in which humans create and respond to rhythm. Families will experiment with rhythm and creating their own syncopated and non-syncopated rhythms using their hands, feet and voices.

Andy Barnett explores the concept that the human brain is set up for music making just like a computer is programmed to do it's work. Speech, a sense of time, emotions, and connections to others all operate in different parts of the brain. Making and listening to music connects all these parts of your brain, and sets your body singing and dancing. This workshop explores how through music we can literally feel these brain connections in our bodies, and experience our power as musical creators. Three topics will be our guide: 1) accuracy 2) clarity 3) attitude. That is, playing the right sound so as to be understood with the special personal touch that makes music so powerful.



 
To learn more about THE MUSIC INSTINCT, check out their website:
 
MUSIC INSTINCT’s Website includes:
 
Extra interview footage
A blog featuring entries from author and featured guest on the show, Daniel Levitin and Concetta M. Tomaino music therapist
3 Lesson Plans covering grades K-12 incorporating hands on web interactives
 
 
“Experimental Music” (Grades: 5-8) In this lesson, students will learn about the elements of music and will design and conduct their own scientific experiments on how people respond to music, using examples from THE MUSIC INSTINCT as a guide. They will learn to determine a research question that can be tested in an experiment, will write a hypothesis, and will collect data using classmates, peers, or the community as their subjects.
“We’ve Got Rhythm” (Grades 5-8) In this lesson, students will explore the ways in which humans create and respond to rhythm, using examples from THE MUSIC INSTINCT as a guide.
“Good Vibrations!” (Grades 5-8) This lesson offers an introduction to the physical nature of sound—its origin in vibration, its transmission though various mediums, and its range of frequencies including those above and below our own audible spectrum.
 
Web Interactives:
Chord Structure: Learn about basic chord structure
Frequency Explorer: Learn about frequency and how it manifests in sounds the sounds around us
Rhythm Explorer: Learn about how rhythm can manifest itself in the environment
 
 
Major funding for THE MUSIC INSTINCT is provided by the National Science Foundation, Mary Rodgers Guettel, NAMM FOUNDATION, National Endowment for the Arts, Rita and Fritz Markus, The Vital Projects Fund, the Irving Harris Foundation, Sono and Victor Elmaleh, Thea Petschek Iervolino and public television viewers.