Cadence Podcast: What Music Tells us About the Mind
Indre Viskontas
Cadence is a podcast about music: how it affects your brain, your life, and the community in which you live.
Join our host, cognitive neuroscientist and classically trained opera singer Indre Viskontas while we talk to scientists, musicians, musicologists, and composers to find answers to some of the biggest questions still surrounding the intersection of music and science. How much can we learn about the mind with music as the lens?
Join our host, cognitive neuroscientist and classically trained opera singer Indre Viskontas while we talk to scientists, musicians, musicologists, and composers to find answers to some of the biggest questions still surrounding the intersection of music and science. How much can we learn about the mind with music as the lens?
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Mar 16, 2017 • 33min
Episode 03: How We Find Meaning in Music
Last episode we met George Shin, who not too long ago received a cochlear implant and started to take piano lessons as part of a study at the University of California in San Francisco. This week we will learn more about his journey, the purpose and results of the study, and we’ll start exploring how people find meaning in music.
Mar 2, 2017 • 32min
Episode 02: Are There Universals in Music?
This week we attempt to find out if there are any universals in music, how the same sounds can go from speech to song, and how our auditory system processes music.
Feb 16, 2017 • 21min
Episode 01: What Is Music?
What is music? How would you define it? Does it defy definition? In this episode we try to get answers to those questions from from a pioneer in music cognition research, a musicologist, and an otolaryngologist who surgically restores hearing and studies the brain basis of musical improvisation. theensembleproject.com/cadence facebook.com/cadencepodcast twitter.com/cadencepodcast cadencemind@gmail.com Produced by Adam Isaak and Indre Viskontas. Music in this episode was provided by acclaimed New Zealand composer Rhian Sheehan from his album Stories From Elsewhere.
