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Music and Stephen Gislason
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Stephen is a physician, author,
musician and composer. He is the chief performer, arranger and studio engineer at
Persona Digital. He started the Trinity Band in 1996 which became the Trinity P2500
Band in 2007. The Persona Classical Ensemble was also formed in 2007 to arrange
and record pieces by JS Bach and and Amadeus Mozart. He has written
that singing, dancing and playing music are the best expressions of humans. His
review of popular music starting in the 1940's brings him pleasure and inspiration
to develop new compositions. He states that he has been most attracted
to beautiful ballads, modern jazz and music with lyrical melodies.
He studied piano for many years, beginning a at age 5. As a child, he was immersed
in classical music. In high school he started to play the trumpet in bands
and continues to play trumpet and flugelhorn parts on the keyboard. Recording technology
evolved quickly since he was a child. He recalls that tape recorders fascinated
him and by 10 years of age, he began to use tape recorders to edit and
assemble the music that appealed to him. In the early 70s, he learned electronics,
began building synthesizers and experimented with psychoacoustics. His study of
neuroscience integrated nicely with his study of electronic sound processing and
sound processing in the brain. He treats music as a form of language, separate from,
but related to spoken languages. Music can be understood in terms of syntax, semantics,
and pragmatics in the same way that spoken language is analysed. Stephen has observed
that when he is preoccupied writing books, his musical creativity is impaired and
visa versa. Music and spoken language share some of the same brain processors and
compete. Singing brings music and spoken language together in a powerful combination.
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Stephen as Philosopher see books from Philosophy,
Psychology & Neuroscience Series
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