Crowdsourcing Music!

Many people run to music. I do sometimes. Mostly for races, when I need something to keep my heart rate up. For practice runs, I prefer the company of a friend, or an audiobook. I’ve gotten through many, many audiobooks that way (including the unabridged Les Miserables, which is not for the faint of heart. […]

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The music of the species

It’s all about the music. Gill and Purves. “A biological rationale for musical scales” PLoS ONE, 2009 So you might think that music like this: (HOT STUFF. Go to 0:35 for the real hotness. It’s Victoria’s O Magnum Mysterium) or this: (Also some killer hot stuff, 3:50 has the real chills. The Lauridsen version) Don’t […]

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The Music of the Brain

The important part of this paper isn’t the figures. It’s the audio files. I’ll be including them in the links, and I definitely recommend a listen

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