TOPSY GOES TO NORWAY

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 NORWAYThe 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:Ken Barrett » writing For the full score, libretto, story outline, designs, animations and more go to the opera website:www.brainlandtheopera.co.ukClick the link below for an animated prelude to Act 1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNNcslZ2MncThe image is by Ken Barrett and based on a Soviet era collage. Contact:steve4cello@ gmail.com                             [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.