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Event
features performances by 8 musicians who are also top scientists and academics
in fields ranging from neuroscience to environmentalism; former Patti Smith
guitarist Lenny Kaye to headline and variety show dance star Anna Copa Cabanna
will emcee the event.

New
York, N.Y.—Forget the beakers, test tubes and electroencephalograms; when these
scientists leave the lab it’s all about guitars, drums and wild Rock ‘N’ Roll
gyrations. Rock-It Science Festival will bring together 8 outstanding
scientists and academics who share a second career as rock musicians, along
with six additional performers with international exposure and a great
appreciation for science.

Dr.
Joseph LeDoux conceived the idea for this unique event, which serves as the
closing event for the Sensation to Emotion Conference on March 2 and 3. LeDoux
is a professor of neuroscience at New York University who not only has
pioneered study of the brain’s mechanisms for emotion and memory and the author
of The Emotional Brain and The Synaptic Self, but is also
guitarist and lead vocalists of rock band The Amygdaloids, who will be
performing at Rock-It Science.  The Amygdaloids line-up also includes
three other NYU scientists: neuroscientist Daniela Schiller, graduate
psychology student Nina Galbraith Curley, and Science Director of the
Environmental Sciences Program and associate professor of biology Tyler Volk.

The
Rock-It Science Festival will start rockin’ at 6:30 p.m. on March 3 at the
Highline Ballroom, 431 W. 16th Street in New York. Australian Go-Go
dancer and variety show star Anna Copa Cabanna will emcee the event, promising
an interesting and humorous evening. Headlining the event is musician, writer
and record producer Lenny Kaye, who is the long-time collaborator of
poet-rocker Patti Smith. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online at www.highlineballroom.com. 

Many
of the featured artists, including The Amygdaloids, perform songs whose lyrics
are based on the scientists’ own research. The unique connection between
science and rock music relates a new understanding of the human condition that
reflects the increasing role of science in issues of the mind, body and social
relations. “A lot of people have been talking about this thing called
‘neuroculture’,” says musician/producer Tim Sommer, who is co-producing the
event with Dr. LeDoux.  I am not 100 percent sure what this means, but I
take it to mean it’s this wonderful; sphere where music and art interface with
not only the workings of the brain, but art can also be made and inspired by
invesitigating how the brain itself works.  I think this event is an
extraordinary example of that.”

Besides
The Amygdaloids, scientist-musicians performing at Rock-It Science also include
Daniel Levitin, a cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, and author (This
Is Your Brain On Music, The World In Six Songs) who has performed
with Mel Torme, Blue Oyster Cult and David Byrne; David Sulzer (a.k.a. Dave
Soldier) who has worked with David Byrne, John Cale and Kurt Vonnegut along
with co-leading musical groups that include The Spinozas and the Kropotkins;
and evolutionary geneticist Pardis Sabeti, who leads the Boston band Thousand
Days. New York Times global environment reporter and author Andrew Revkin will
also take the stage as a member of the band Uncle Wade.

Guest
artists at Rock-It Science include Grammy-nominated songwriter and
international recording artist Gary Lucas and Peter Holsapple, an acclaimed
musician, songwriter and side man who is co-leader of the legendary dBs, and
has performed extensively with R.E.M. and Hootie&The Blowfish. American
folk-rock duo The Kennedys, jazz/cabaret performer Pamela Luss, acclaimed
songwriter Steve Wynn (of the Dream Syndicate and the Miracle Three), and
Stuart Chatwood, previously the keyboard player for platinum rock band The Tea
Party, also make the Rock-It Science lineup. More information about the Rock-It
Science Festival and artists performing at the event, as well as ticket
information and advance registration, can be found online at http://www.sensationandemotionnetwork.com/html/Rock-It_Science.html

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