Neuroscience
NPR.org/music has some terrific musical material! They have interviews with musical acts of all stripes: rock/pop/folk; classical; jazz & blues; world; and urban. I've mostly explored the first category, which has featured:
- Compose New Music? In Your Dreams
The source of professional musicians’ creativity could lie in their dreams, report Piero Salzarulo and colleagues at the University of Florence. They asked 35 professional musicians and 30 non-musical students to complete a record of their dreams and...
- Stephanie's Favorite Songs, 2012
As always, it was a good year for music! I've completed my favorite song list of 2012 and posted it on Spotify. The full list, in song order, is below, with a few annotations here & there. When I Was 12 – Explicit Content This...
- A New Kind Of Concept Map?
A few weeks ago, I blogged about Using Math to Predict Musical Hits. Turns out that before Mike McCready was on ScienceFriday, he was interviewed by Malcolm Gladwell at the 2007 New Yorker Conference. He was a bit more technical with Gladwell than he...
- World Music
Last week, Future Tense had an episode about National Geographic's World Music site. From the Future Tense web site: "National Geographic is known for bringing the world alive through its magazine and television documentaries. Now it's aiming...
- The Music Genome Project?!
A new favorite podcast is Future Tense from American Public Media. Last month they reported on Pandora, "an Internet music service that streams songs based on 400 distinct musical characteristics." The people behind Pandora are working on a music genome...
Neuroscience
A Musical Interlude
NPR.org/music has some terrific musical material! They have interviews with musical acts of all stripes: rock/pop/folk; classical; jazz & blues; world; and urban. I've mostly explored the first category, which has featured:- Moby -- All Things Considered interview *and* they stream his new album Wait for Me, in its entirety
- Regina Spektor -- Bob Boilen's review of her new album Far, along with a link to stream of the entire album.
- the 100 best folk songs, as selected by Folk Alley listeners -- all 100! streamed in random order
- An amazing concert archive, from various public radio shows across the country, including WXPN's Friday Concert series and Mountain Stage.
- Compose New Music? In Your Dreams
The source of professional musicians’ creativity could lie in their dreams, report Piero Salzarulo and colleagues at the University of Florence. They asked 35 professional musicians and 30 non-musical students to complete a record of their dreams and...
- Stephanie's Favorite Songs, 2012
As always, it was a good year for music! I've completed my favorite song list of 2012 and posted it on Spotify. The full list, in song order, is below, with a few annotations here & there. When I Was 12 – Explicit Content This...
- A New Kind Of Concept Map?
A few weeks ago, I blogged about Using Math to Predict Musical Hits. Turns out that before Mike McCready was on ScienceFriday, he was interviewed by Malcolm Gladwell at the 2007 New Yorker Conference. He was a bit more technical with Gladwell than he...
- World Music
Last week, Future Tense had an episode about National Geographic's World Music site. From the Future Tense web site: "National Geographic is known for bringing the world alive through its magazine and television documentaries. Now it's aiming...
- The Music Genome Project?!
A new favorite podcast is Future Tense from American Public Media. Last month they reported on Pandora, "an Internet music service that streams songs based on 400 distinct musical characteristics." The people behind Pandora are working on a music genome...