Brainland is a new opera that interweaves three stories from the history of 20th Neuroscience, created by four artists with a background in neuroscience and medicine, currently in development with by a range of associates. In these podcasts the creators of Brainland explore the historical background to those stories by speaking to academics and collaborators.
PODCAST 2: TOPSY GOES TO NORWAY
The opera opens with four UK brain specialists led by physiologist William Grey Walter, arriving at a US Airforce base in Gloucestershire in 1957. They are enroute to Oslo where they will visit a US funded laboratory pioneering a controversial brain investigation and treatment. In this episode we explore the background of the visit.
Contributors:
Dr Andrew Platman, dramatist and retired GP.
Professor Phil Husbands, Research Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Sussex.
Dr Ken Barrett Visual artist, former Senior lecturer, Keele University and neuropsychiatrist.
Musical extracts: Prologue to Act 1 of Brainland.
Music by Stephen Brown, libretto by Andrew Platman, Ken Barrett & Heather Angus Leppan.
Brainland the Podcast produced by Ken Barrett and Bob Barrett.
To read more about the Norway trip and its' background click on the link:
For the full score, libretto, story outline, designs, animations and more go to the opera website:
Click the link below for an animated prelude to Act 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNNcslZ2Mnc
The image is by Ken Barrett and based on a Soviet era collage.
Contact:
steve4cello@ gmail.com kenb@kenbarrettstudio.co.uk
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