“I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you.” – Paul Cézanne After reading the article on “Doing Science Making Art” by Bevil Conway, I was inspired to do a little further research on the … Continue reading
Professor Sommers Smith’s lecture about the science behind sound and music was quite timely as the weekend after that lecture I had gone back home for the weekend to see one of my favorite bands in concert with my best … Continue reading
This week’s lecture and reading was fantastic. The reading for this week, The Power of Music, discussed how music is something that is not only heard, but felt with our bodies. As he states in the reading, we listen to … Continue reading
I started competing in Irish music competitions when I was 11 years old. I participated in a series of local competitions and, by the time I was 12, I had qualified to compete at a national competition in Saint Louis, … Continue reading
Last week’s class really interested me as it made me realize the importance of perception in different fields. What I mean by that is that the mention of synesthesia by Professor Sommers Smith and how she ‘sees’ music as colors … Continue reading
I was really interested by Tuesday’s talk and about how the brain and music interconnect. It is fascinating to me that two seemingly completely different things are in fact directly related to each other. For instance, if our brain does … Continue reading
In the Sachs article, The Power of Music, he described the aliens in Arthur Clarke’s novel that appreciated the greatness of a composer’s music, but could not truly experience and appreciate human music because “nothing goes on within them.” Similarly, … Continue reading
Like Diana, I was also struck by the conversation we had about synesthesia, and how many class members seem to have some form of it (truly amazing!). Last semester I was in an amazing Russian literature class where we read … Continue reading
When she drew the neuron at the beginning, I became excited. I had remembered the biology I learned in the tenth grade. After sitting in Professor Sommer’s lecture about hearing, music, and the brain, I am eternally thankful for being … Continue reading
(I apologize for uploading this blog post so late!) The experiment that Oliver Sacks conducted surprised (and amused) me, to say the least, but it also reminded me of encounters with muscle memory that had occurred during my (short) career … Continue reading