Music, in one form or another, makes use of the whole brain. This is because we use it in so many different ways and in such a variety of situations—sticking a pair of headphones on and…
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You may have noticed that when you’re in a crowded room such as a bar or restaurant, you have relatively little trouble in paying attention to what your social companion is saying. This is known as the…
When it comes to dieting we often choose to rely on our self-control–a notoriously fragile construct. It’s not easy walking past processed foods in the supermarket without picking up a snack. It’s not easy mustering…
Think back to your physics classes in school, do you remember waves? Do you remember how to draw a wave? I’m not talking in technical terms, I don’t want you to plot functions and so…
The Motivation to Create In an artists search for creative expression and endeavor comes the thought of value and worth. That value can come in many forms, anchored mostly in the artists reasons for creating…
People seem to love musicians. Rock stars & pop stars, soul singers & rappers… I treat bands like Led Zep, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, as if they’re deities. They’re special groups of people that…
Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, is a good book. Thinking fast, or System 1 as he calls it, is your intuition. It’s quick, resourceful, and prone to mistakes which we often call biases.…
Music as a whole consists of many facets: Pitch, Loudness, Harmony, Timbre, Rhythm… The thing is, rhythm is a whole different beast to those others, it pulls us in with it’s timely thuds, even without…
“We can change all of the pitches used in the song (transposition), the tempo, and the instrumentation, and the song is still recognized as the same song. We can change the intervals, the scales, even…
Finding Pleasure in the Dissonant If you’ve not done already, I recommend reading the first two parts to this series: One and two. We’ve gone over the aspects that make up sound and music, and…