Wavelength

The festival brings together scientists and artists who are rethinking how sound influences the brain, body, and emotions, and how music can be used as a powerful tool for communication, healing, and creative expression.

This event will be in Dutch.

Wavelength shows how music, sound, and science meet in surprising ways. Discover how sound influences our brain, our emotions, and our well-being. Scientists and artists take you into the fascinating world of sound and show how music not only connects and moves, but can also contribute to communication, recovery, and creativity. With live music, inspiring stories, and interactive experiments, Wavelength makes the science behind sound tangible and audible.

Do you hear what I hear?

The atmosphere or emotion of music can be perceived very differently by people. In 'Do you hear what I hear?', we discover just how different that can be through a live experiment! Scientist Rebecca Schaefer explains how your own listening experience plays a role in this. The audience assesses live which emotion they hear in the music, led by violinist Merel Vercammen and others, and at the end of the performance, the results of the research are shown immediately. Musicians: including Merel Vercammen (violin)

Speaker: Rebecca Schaefer

Do you sing better than a parrot?

Parrots all over the world have learned to sing famous opera excerpts for scientific research. In this playful performance, human singers take on musical parrots on video, and scientist Michelle Spierings explains what makes musical parrots so special. Did you know that parrots can imitate whistles and even grunt? Can we grunt better than a parrot?

Music: Camille Dalmais, Tout dit

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Magic Flute: Queen of the Night
Geert Chatrou, Fête de la Belle
Musicians: Sterre Konijn (vocals), Geert Chatrou (artistic flute), Vincent Houdijk (vibraphone)

Speaker: Michelle Spierings