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Category: Neuroscience
Learning to play a musical instrument is known to involve both structural and functional changes in the brain. Studies published in recent years have established, for example, that professional keyboard players have increased gray matter volume in motor, auditory and...
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Category: Music
Here's some awesome footage of the one and only Jimi Hendrix performing at Woodstock. At around 11 minutes in, he plays the guitar with his teeth. Yes...with his teeth. And it still sounds great. Some of the hippies at...
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Category: Music
Here's Isaac Hayes performing his extremely funky rendition of Burt Bacharach's The Look of Love....
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Category: Music
Over the last two months, Nature has published a series of essays about the latest scientific research into music, and now that the series is complete, it has been made available as a free PDF.Among the authors of the essays...
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Category: Music
Here's some superb old footage of the legendary Syrian musician Farid al-Atrash giving a virtuoso performance on the oud....
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Category: Neuroscience
This cartoon, found at Paleo-Future, accompanied a short article from the August 28th, 1949 edition of the San Antonio Light: CHICAGO, Aug. 27 - (AP) - Some day composers won't write music, and musicians won't play it - yet...
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Category: Links
My exams begin on Friday, so things are going to be pretty quite around here until around mid-May. I will post various bits and pieces over the next couple of weeks, but in the meantime, here are some interesting links...
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Category: Technology
This track, called Design Coding by The Poetic Prophet, has just been uploaded on YouTube. I thought it was hilarious the first time I saw it, and it's still very amusing on the fourth viewing. I'm not an expert on...
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Category: Neuroscience
One shouldn't really need an excuse to embed this fantastic performance by Thelonious Monk, but now there is one: NIDCD researchers believe that they have identified the cognitive neural substrate of jazz improvisation. For the study, which is published...
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Category: Technology
James Fung, a musician and computer engineer at the University of Toronto, has developed a program that can convert EEG recordings into music. Fung is involved in the Regenerative Brain Wave Music Project, which "explores new physiological interfaces for musical...
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