March 16th 2009
Musicians
I have some particular interest in music as it relates to thought processes. I find myself as much in awe of the way musicians move from one harmony to the next as I am of musical dissonance. In the music of ancient China, musicians played different instruments, but the same note on each in a Confucian sense of order and place and responsibility. Present-day discordance may not necessarily challenge this order–consider how the varied repeated strains of a Philip Glass composition combine and interweave in a similar movement, yet with starkly different outcomes.
So, this link to a Scientific American article on how musician’s brains keep time with each other has me rapt. How does that happen?
In any case, there’s one modern band that captures what the Sci-Am blog is talking about:
If the video isn’t enough, the song is listed below.