How to Listen (If you have some "time")
In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.
http://www.ted.com/talks/evelyn_glennie_shows_how_to_listen
and/or
Your brain on improv
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.
http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_your_brain_on_improv
Think I'll go sing to the crystals now... :)
In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.
http://www.ted.com/talks/evelyn_glennie_shows_how_to_listen
and/or
Your brain on improv
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.
http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_your_brain_on_improv
Think I'll go sing to the crystals now... :)