Talks and Lectures
UCI Brain Initiative Launch Event - Neuro-Immersion Demo
UCI Brain is an academic initiative that fosters interdisciplinary interactions about our understanding of the brain. During the UCI Brain launch event in November 2019, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts participated in a demonstration to help illuminate one of the initiative’s cross-cutting themes centered on the arts entitled, The Artistic Brain.
My project studies the immersion level of the audience in two different types of music performances wherein one the audience is passive and in the other active. For this experiment, I composed a piece in two parts. The first part is a solo piano improvisation wherein the audience is passive and the second part is a musical improvisatory game that engages the audience to make music altogether.
Presentation by Adib Ghorbani
PhD thesis, Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology program
2020, UC Irvine, California.
Guest lecturer, Pitzer College in Claremont, California, 2019
Post Pandemic online classes at University of California, Irvine, 2020
Online Courses in Farsi
Tehran - 2019
Tehran - 2019
Shiraz - 2018
Shahriar - 2017
Topic: 'Time' in Music Education
Discussing time and how it matters in the methods of teaching classical music.
Topic: New approaches in teaching music
A critique of prior pedagogical methods for teaching music, in Iran. Suggestions on how to teach students during their first steps of learning music.
Topic: Sexual Harassment: Better Training and Protection in music classes.
Discussing how teachers and music schools can help protecting children. Discussing the role and the importance of improvisation in teaching music.
Topic: Silence
Discussing the role and the importance of silence in sound art. How to build community. The effect of western music on new sounds in Iran.
