Before Leaving Your Brain on Music – Emotions and Music
I am currently reading another great book about neuroscience and creativity, and will start riffing on it in the near future (as promised in my last post); it is also a book that lends itself magnificently to new media riffing, so I am working on some pieces that will take a while to create.В But [...]
December 19, 2010
Tags: brain and emotion, creative genius, creativity and emotions, emotions and music, guitar, Levitin, neuroscience and music, This Is Your Brain On Music Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary 
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Mozart Riff, Part 2 – The Missing Link
Sorry to be gone for a while. Holiday you know. Above are some shots I took at a beautiful bird sanctuary that my sister and I visited over Thanksgiving break. It is north of Sacramento, where they seem to be doing a wonderful job of bringing back and preserving wetlands. I wish I had brought [...]
December 5, 2010
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Okay, so here is the Mozart Riff, Part 1 (a take on another passage in Your Brain on Music)
Your Brain on Music author, Daniel Levitin is a neuroscientist who has written a very interesting and thought provoking book. But I think he misses the boat entirely when he attempts to analyze musical genius/talent and comes out claiming that Mozart was really not much different than any other musician with the exception that he [...]
November 6, 2010
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Los Angeles with and without my brain (see previous post if you don’t know what this means)
okay, I had to do a new media piece as I ponder the world of color and sound we create in our brains only (see previous post). You must have Flash capability to see it – so your iPads and iPhones may have a hole where my animation is up [...]
October 31, 2010
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Back to Book Riffing – and Your Brain on Music
There is a lot of great stuff in this book. Definitely worth a read. But today I want to share a bittersweet moment that resulted from it. And a bit of a disagreement I have with it. Wait. I have to go get a cup of coffee before I do this. Often I riff from [...]
October 23, 2010
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Riffing on This Is Your Brain On Music, Part 1
Went to hear my favorite songwriter, Merlin Snider, the other night at Coffee Gallery Backstage in Pasadena. During the performance he mentioned that he was reading a great book, This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin. I was in the middle of that book myself! Guess that is a clue as to why [...]
August 15, 2010
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