The BioLogos Forum: Jeff R. Warren
Jeff R. Warren is Assistant Professor of Music at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia. He has presented and published internationally on musical improvisation, meaning in music, soundscape, modern European philosophy, psychology, and ethics. Jeff’s creative work includes jazz composition, performance on double bass, and sound installations. Jeff received his doctorate in music and philosophy from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Series by Warren
He Who Has Ears (3 Parts)
Scholar and musician Jeff Warren addresses the questions of how music is meaningful and where that meaning resides by looking at the popular ideas that musical meaning is entirely subjective to the listener and that the meaning of music can be universal. Warren also explores the recent trend of attempting to explain music via neuroscience. Warren points out that treating music creation and reception primarily as functions of the individual brain fails to do justice to the complexities of what happens when we make and listen to music. Such oversimplification limits the depth of our understanding of the roles music may have played in the evolution of human culture. Finally, he looks into the reasons why music continues to play such a critical role in the worshiping life of the Church. Posts by Warren
Playing Nature’s Songs
March 13, 2011
Imagine for a moment that you are out in the wilderness, walking through a meadow of waist high grass with snow-capped mountains in the distance. You hear the wind blowing through the grass and the chirping and cooing of birds from all directions. You think to yourself: “It is great being surrounded by nature. God’s creation is so beautiful.”
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