Reads tagged with “music”
Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain
“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”
Trailblazing Composer Julia Perry on Music as the Universal Language of Love and Mutual Understanding
“Music has a unifying effect on the peoples of the world, because they all understand and love it… And when they find themselves enjoying and loving the same music, they find themselves loving one another.”
The Gifted Listener: Composer Aaron Copland on Honing Your Talent for Listening to Music
“There are few pleasures in art greater than the secure sense that one can recognize beauty when one comes upon it… Recognizing the beautiful in an abstract art like music partakes somewhat of a minor miracle.”
Bob Dylan on Vulnerability, the Meaning of Integrity, and Music as an Instrument of Truth
“You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to me being vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose.”
Matter, Music, and the Mind
“Sound is sea: pattern lapping pattern… Matter delights in music, and became Bach.”
Darwin’s Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflection on What Makes Life Worth Living
“If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
September 28, 1951: Alan Turing, the World’s First Digital Music, and the Poetry of Possibility
A hoot, a hummingbird, and an electronic hymn for the modern world.
The Music of Trees: Improvisation, Iteration, and the Science of Immortality
“Potentially, every tree is immortal.”
Music and the Mystery of Aliveness
“We are a music-making species — always have been, always will be — and music’s capacity to explore, express and address what it is to be human remains one of our greatest communal gifts.”
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