THE PLENARY LECTURE AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 2019’S OSKA

What we see affects what we hear, and vice versa. Our brain analyses images much faster than it analyses sounds. Thus the sound recording equipment is equipped with screens and scales designed as the visual representation of the sound level. In general, the general public loses our its ability of hearing. We hear less and less intensely, however we can see more. We focus on image and the sight has become the leading sense. Psychologists’ research indicate that our cognition is 90% based on the sense of sight.  Every experience a multisensory one though we very often we do not realize this phenomenon. We do not focus attention of other senses despite the fact that we need also other senses as a part of the cognition. It is therefore necessary to train each of the senses so that the moments of cognition are not dominated by one sense - the one which gets most practice.

Engineer In 2016 Magdalena Piotrowska received the Gdańsk University of Technology title of doctor in technical sciences with distinction. Her dissertation related to music perception and content management (Music Information Retrieval). She combines her passion for sound and travel and thus she has participated in post-graduate studies "Music Production and Recording" at the University of Stavanger. She was a part of the sound engineers team at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada. 

Since 2009 she has taught engineering and sound perception classes at the AGH in Krakow. PJWSTK in Warsaw. Gdansk University of Technology, the University of Silesia and within the scope of the own  Learn How To Sound. 

(JL)