Grace Leslie at Mondavi Center

Piece 1: Vessels (2015–2020)

Pieces 2-3: from Fais de moi un instrument (2021)

As a Stanford student, Grace Leslie imagined a new kind of electronic music. She wanted to engineer music to harmonize the brain with the nervous system. Leslie has continued to develop this brain-body music as director of the Brain Music Lab at Georgia Tech. As an active electronic musician, she commits to harnessing the expression new music technology grants us. She employs such technology to understand the link between music and emotion. Brain-body performances Vessels and Fais de moi un instrument combine flute and electronics improvisation that triggered by electrical readings of Leslie’s brain, heart, and skin.