What Is the Soundtrack of Your Life?

From a corridor in Perth to Vienna in the 18th century, from Istanbul at dawn to a CNN documentary about the last Nazi hunter – music has always been humanity’s most powerful vehicle for emotional travel. In this talk, Michael Pignéguy makes the case that this power isn’t something that happens to you. It’s something you can learn to use – and it starts with a single question: what is this music doing to me right now? The gap between feeling music and using it is where your personal soundtrack actually lives. Michael Pignéguy is a composer, performer and educator on a mission to explore how music shapes the way we experience the world. Over thirty years working across jazz, orchestral and world music – and across four continents – he has seen what music does to people, Including himself.