By Pam Bullock | June 6, 2011 |
In the middle of a World Science Festival panel on Saturday night, the guitarist Pat Metheny took a sudden U-turn from the program he had planned. Instead of performing one of his innovative compositions, plucked from any of the phases of his career as a style-shifting jazz omnivore, Mr. Metheny, performing with the bassist Larry Grenadier, decided on the spot to play a jazz standard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/science/06wsfmusic.html?_r=1&ref=science
By Pam Bullock | April 18, 2011 |
The other day, Paul Simon was rehearsing a favorite song: his own “Darling Lorraine,” about a love that starts hot but turns very cold. He found himself thinking about a three-note rhythmic pattern near the end, where Lorraine (spoiler alert) gets sick and dies.
by Kate Melville | 20 December 2010 |
Using fMRI neuroimaging, Florida Atlantic University scientists have identified key aspects of musical performance that cause emotion-related brain activity, and they have shown, for the first time, how these performance nuances work in the brain, in real-time.
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20101119221308data_trunc_sys.shtml
Source: Florida Atlantic University (FAU) | December 10, 2010 |
Findings identify key aspects of musical performance that evoke emotion-related brain activity, and show how performance nuances affect the brain in real-time
Source: Newscientist | October 21, 2009 |
THE MAN dangles on a cable hanging from an eight-storey-high tower. Suspended in a harness with his back to the ground, he sees only the face of the man above, who controls the winch that is lifting him to the top of the tower like a bundle of cargo. And then it happens. The cable suddenly unclips and he plummets towards the concrete below.
By Brian Handwerk | March 8, 2005 |
North American infants are more adept than adults at recognizing complex musical rhythms, according to a recent study.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0308_050308_rhythm.html