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From: MARK TRAMO To: Robert Lawrence Kuhn Bcc: jeevacation@gmail.com Subject: Re: Closer To Truth - PBS TV - interview [request] Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 16:56:11 +0000 Attachments: Tramo0lScience.pdf; Tramo1993.TimbreSplitBrain.pdf; Harmony.TramoEt2001AnnNYAS.pdf; Tramo05AnnNYAS.pdf; Tramo2011MusicMedicine.pdf; Tramo03HarvardDictionaryMusic.pdf Thanks for your email, Robert - so you are in the snow in my home town! Please find attached 4 papers, per your request. Thank you for offering to Skype with us! I don't think we have the technology to do that for the 50+ in class - perhaps we could plan on it for next Fall's class - then I could arrange the schedule to accommodate when you might be in LA. Happy Thanksgiving - with thanks for inviting me to participate. Cheers, Mark On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 8:56 PM Robert Kuhn c wrote: Great, Mark! We're beginning to plan the new CTT Breakthroughs! series and pleased you will participate. (The previous email was a form email.) Love to do your class. However, I am now in New York - most of my time is New York (when not in China). Perhaps I could participate via Skype/Facetime? I've done this several times with university classes related to CTT content. To get us started, could you send us 3-4 of your papers related to music and brain/mind. At some point, we'll do a conference call. One topic would be to work with Peter on a possible verite scene that would exemplify music/brain relationships/research (sophisticated but short). Looking forward and best regards, Robert On Nov 16, 2018, at 7:46 PM, Robert Lawrence Kuhn < wrote: Forwarded messa e From: MARK TRAMO Date: Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 6:41 PM EFTA01016342 Subject: Re: Closer To Truth - PBS TV - interview [request] To: <1 Thank you, Robert - I'm honored to accept your invitation. Are you in LA? I'd love to come by and hear about your "Breakthrough!" mini-series and exchange some ideas. Re: Brain Research at UCLA - I'm presently teaching in the UCLA Neuroscience Program - my Music Mind & Brain seminar on Thurs nights has fifty 21 year olds who would love to meet you and to hear your take on the four brain research papers they are presenting on "Intelligence, Talent & Creativity," the theme of the seminar on Dec 6th, 6:30-9:30P. Howard Gardner used to guest-prof this seminar when the course started at Harvard in the late '90s. And they'd love to hear about your career-related decisions when you were at UCLA - about 75% of the class is comprised of seniors and juniors who are Neuroscience majors. They just "interviewed" this week's guest professor of the Rhythm seminar, neuroscientist/drummer John Iversen of UCSD, about his career trajectory. Eric Gardner, who has a theater background and has managed creative artists for 40+ years (including two members of the Beatles) will be there to discuss talent and creativity from the music industry perspective (the course is jointly sponsored by the Music Industry, Science & Technology Program in the Dept of Musicology of the Music School and the Undergraduate Interdepartmental Program for Neuroscience in the College of Letters & Science). Looking forward to seeing you again soon, Mark On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 2:14 PM Robert Lawrence Kuhn < wrote: Dear Dr. Tramo: I write to invite you to be interviewed on Closer To Truth, our long-running PBS / public television series and web archive that explores fundamental questions and features leading scientists and philosophers. (See below for a description.) Our physics episodes, for example, feature Steven Weinberg, Freeman Dyson, Frank Wilczek, Leonard Susskind, Alan Guth, Max Tegmark, etc. As executive producer and host of Closer To Truth, pleased to announce a new science- based Closer To Truth mini-series — Breakthroughs! — which will explore, in 13 episodes, new ideas and ways of thinking in mathematics, biology, neuroscience, and more. Our orientation is the philosophical foundations of science, mathematics, and biology. If you might be interested, we would be pleased to discuss your possible appearance in the Breakthroughs! episode pertaining to music. We will be filming in various locations in the United States and the United Kingdom from January through summer of 2019. Our hope is that, should you be interested, we could find a time and location that is convenient for you. We would work together on content / topics / questions in your area of expertise. Like Closer To Truth, Breakthroughs! strives for intellectual depth in an informal style — much like a conversation between colleagues. Peter Getzels is Closer To Truth's award-winning producer/director (and co-creator). I created, write, host and executive produce Closer To Truth; my PhD is in brain research (UCLA); my most recent book, with John Leslie, is The Mystery of Existence: Why is them Anything At All? Breakthroughs! would present your work and insights to serious, literate audiences. If you would like to participate, Peter and his team will reach out to answer questions and coordinate logistics. EFTA01016343 Sincerely, Robert Robert Lawrence Kuhn Executive Producer & Host Closer To Truth (CTT)—the greatest thinkers exploring the deepest questions. CTT is the definitive PBS/public television series and web archive on Cosmos (cosmology/physics, philosophy of science), Consciousness (brain/mind, philosophy of mind) and Meaning/God (philosophy of religion). Filmed on location in HD with high production values, CTT features leading philosophers and scientists and treats the topics with sophistication and subtlety. Closer To Truth is broadcast weekly on >200 PBS and high-quality public television stations in the U.S. (most twice a week). CTT has been on the air continuously since 2000; CTT has produced and broadcast 277 episodes, 234 episodes (18 seasons) since 2008. Season 19 is in post-production. Since 2008, -200,000 station-episodes have been broadcast. In New York City, Closer To Truth is broadcast on WLIW World and CUNY-TV (Channel 75, four times a week). Closer To Truth website features -4,000 web videos of renowned scientists and philosophers - the world's leading archive on cosmos, consciousness meaning/God. in 2017, the CTT website had over two million pageviews. The CTTYoutube channel has -500 videos and >8 million views in 5 years; 17 TV seasons (221 episodes) are on iTunes & Amazon. Robert Lawrence Kuhn — Creator Executive Producer, Writer Presenter PhD, brain research (UCLA); MBA (MIT); —30 books, e.g., The Mystery of Existence: Why is there Anything At All? (with John Leslie), Closer To Truth: Challenging Current Belief; How China's Leaders Think. Peter Getzels — Co-Creator Producer Director in Anthropology (London School of Economics), MFA (National Film and TV School, UK); international filmmaker; staff producer, BBC Science Department, National Geographic. Separately, our Closer To Truth team won an LA Emmy for 'China's Challenges' Closer To Truth Titles and Summaries of Episodes Closer To Truth Content Guide (taxonomy of topics in four levels): Cosmos, Consciousness, Meaning/God - Closer To Truth TV Episode Samples: Closer to Truth: Foundational Questions Institute series (6 episodes) PASSWORD: Observing Quanta, Observing Nature Philosophy of Physics and Cosmology What Exists? To Seek Cosmic Origins Is the Universe Theologically Ambiguous? Science and the Future of Humanity A Tribute to Marvin Minsky EFTA01016344 Being in the World: A Tribute to Hubert Dreyfus Closer To Truth feature documentary, "Big Questions in Free Will" Mark Jude Tramo, MD PhD Dept of Integrative Biology & Physiology, UCLA College of Letters & Science Dept of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Dept of Musicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Director, The Institute for Music & Brain Science Co-Director, University of California Multi-Campus Music Research Initiative (UC MERCI) http://www.BrainMusic.org http://merci.ucsd.edu Mark Jude Tramo, MD PhD Dept of Integrative Biology & Physiology, UCLA College of Letters & Science Dept of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Dept of Musicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Director, The Institute for Music & Brain Science Co-Director, University of California Multi-Campus Music Research Initiative (UC MERCI) http://www.BrainMusic.org http://merci.ucsd.edu EFTA01016345