![]() ![]() This is a book that any musician or music fan will find both enjoyable and educational. Musicians shouldn’t be intimidated by the title of the book by David Sulzer, Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music. Only a neurobiologist who is a master composer and musician could have written this wonderful book!īob Neuwirth, singer-songwriter and record producer: Here is the place to find out about the way crickets make music, and the McGurk effect! The science comes along gently, never intimidating. Every page has a story, every page a fascinating connection between the universal joy we find in music and some biological or mathematical fact. It is rare that one finds a book where on opening any page, one is drawn to read on and… to read back. This book will help you experience music as an animal, a neural pathway, or a mathematical principle. Music, which is so hard to define, and which connects to everything, has yet to reveal every level of its joy to you. If you think you love music as much as you possibly could, think again. Jaron Lanier, writer / computer scientist / musician: Some of his projects bridge music and neuroscience, including the Thai Elephant Orchestra, an orchestra of fourteen elephants in northern Thailand, and the Brainwave Music Project, which uses EEGs of brain activity to create compositions. He is also a composer and performer under the stage name Dave Soldier and has worked with many major figures in the classical, jazz, and pop worlds, appearing on over one hundred records. His laboratory has made important contributions to the study of brain mechanisms involved in autism, Parkinson’s disease, drug addiction, and learning and memory. He has collaborated with many leading NY artists, including the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and members of the Velvet Underground.David Sulzer is a professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Pharmacology at Columbia University Medical Center. In addition to his scientific life David is a musician and performance artist going by the stage name Dave Soldier. He has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of neuronal signaling in areas of basic memory, movement and addiction. Visit megaphone.David Sulzer received his PhD from Columbia and is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Pharmacology at Columbia University Medical Center. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her Learn more about your ad choices. Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. ![]() Written for musicians and music lovers with any level of science and math proficiency, including none, Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music (Columbia UP, 2021) demystifies how music works while testifying to its beauty and wonder. He makes accessible a vast range of material, helping readers discover the universal principles behind the music they find meaningful. ![]() Sulzer ranges from styles from around the world to canonical composers to hip-hop, the history of experimental music, and animal sound by songbirds, cetaceans, bats, and insects. He delves into topics such as the math by which musical scales, rhythms, tuning, and harmonies are derived, from the days of Pythagoras to technological manipulation of sound waves. David Sulzer, also known in the musical world as Dave Soldier, explains why the perception of music encompasses the physics of sound, the functions of the ear and deep-brain auditory pathways, and the physiology of emotion. Why does a clarinet play at lower pitches than a flute? What does it mean for sounds to be in or out of tune? How are emotions carried by music? Do other animals perceive sound like we do? How might a musician use math to come up with new ideas? This book offers a lively exploration of the mathematics, physics, and neuroscience that underlie music in a way that readers without scientific background can follow. ![]()
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