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Music of the Body

Gresham College Lecture Series

LSO St Luke's

Wednesday 13 May 2026 • 6pm

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Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s

Professor Milton Mermikides speaker

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Tickets free, advance booking necessary.

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Music and biology are profoundly entwined. The heart beats, footsteps fall into familiar tempi, and even the movement of our limbs follows a natural rhythmic hierarchy – as if we shape music in our image. The rise and fall of breath, the cadence of laughter, and the wail of a cry all carry musical gestures, woven into our being. Yet our bodies do not just dictate music – they respond to it, from calming stress to thrilling chills. Beyond this, the biological world itself pulses with music: DNA sequences become melody, disease growth swells into an orchestral crescendo, and a hidden music emerges from within us.

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