The MTG participates in different summer courses at the UPF
The MTG participates in different summer courses at the UPF
Barcelona International Summer School
The Universitat Pompeu Fabra offers the Barcelona International Summer School (BISS) as a flagship program to advance the curriculum of both domestic and international undergraduate students during the summer term in Barcelona.
Courses are credit-bearing (ECTS) and can be taken in English, Spanish or Catalan, in and international classroom environment.
Mores details: https://www.upf.edu/web/barcelonasummerschool
The Artistic Brain: Biology and Computation behind Painting and Music
Teachers: Fernando Giráldez, Perfecto Herrera
Science and art are rooted in our perception of the world. The course is aimed at exploring the biology of perception and its implications on how we experience works of art. It is a discussion on beauty and the brain, a discussion on the history of breakthroughs in painting and on the nature of the irresistible attraction of music for humans. The course starts with a general overview of how our senses build up a representation of the world, with particular reference to the visual and auditory systems. We shall discuss the biology underlying great painters’ achievement of the conquest of space and movement on a canvas. Then we do a parallel exercise with music, looking at the biological and evolutionary roots of musical perception. This will lead us to a general discussion on beauty and art the notion of artists as intuitive neuroscientists, the perceptual grammar of art, aesthetic universal and computational aesthetics.
More information about the course
Campus Junior
More details: https://www.upf.edu/web/campus-junior
Making Music with Your Smartphone: Design and Programming of Electronic Musical Instruments for Mobile Devices
Teachers: Sergi Jordà and Ángel Faraldo
In this course, students will learn the basics of digital sound, and the operation of electronic instruments in particular, such as synthesizers, samplers and rhythm boxes.
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Girls in Data Science: Introducció a la Ciència de Dades: Python, Biomedicina, Web, Xarxes Socials i Música
Teachers: Helena Cuesta (workshop on music)
This course aims tointroduce the students to data science and its applications through a series of workshops of different topics, focused on data analysis, such as searching for information on the web and social networks, biomedicine and music.
The Artifical Intelligence and its applications: learn about the science that is changing the world
Teacher: Rafael Ramírez
This course introduces the subject of artificial intelligence in an intuitive and practical way through projects applied in areas such as medicine, music, finance and neuroscience.