Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience by Michel Meulders; edited and translated by Laurence Garey, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010, 264 pp., illus. 32 b/w. Trade, $27.95/£19.95, ISBN: 978-0-262-01448-9. A recurring topic among those interested in art, science, and technology is the value of transdisciplinary approaches. In my view, those who gravitate to this area [...]
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Article: Sound, the Way the Brain Prefers to Hear It
Sound, the Way the Brain Prefers to Hear It By GUY GUGLIOTTA Published: September 5, 2011 In designing the next great audio system, researchers are invoking the science of psychoacoustics.
Article: Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind?
By JARON LANIER | New York Times If machines are to improve teaching, we must recognize their limits — and our own capacity for magic. Full article
Ann: Synesthersia & Creativity: “Music and the Brain Series”
Friday, October 30 | Richard E. Cytowic gives a pre-concert illustrated talk on how Synesthesia informs art and creativity, with a special focus on colored music and sound paintings from both listener and composer perspectives. The concert afterward is a performance of visual music, "One Minute More," 60 one-minute pieces composed to 60 one-minute videos.
