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The Musical Family

The Musical Family

The musical family is enjoying practicing the Language of Music. Fun 🙂

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The Sounds of Science

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Trevor Cox investigates the science of sound research (1/2). Bad Vibes and Good Vibrations. Why do we find some sounds pleasant while others grate on the ears?

Music is not just an auditory cheese cake, music is something that has an enormous power for learning, therapy, development that has been highly underestimated so far.  - Stefan Koelcch

Listen!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0082dx9

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Your Brain on Improv

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Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation — so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.

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African Music Tradition, a talk by Alfred Ladzekpo

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Alfred Ladzekpo, a master drummer from the Ewe tribe in Ghana and a Prof. of music in Cal Arts (USA), is talking about his music tradition. He is referring to music as a language, learning through listening , social aspects, improvisation and much more... BigEar has much respect.