Guerilla Science blends music and science at Escape2NY
As this lovely post by Olivia Koski on the SA Incubator blog details, last weekend science went Guerilla in the United States. Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips standing with a giant brain that Guerilla...
View ArticleMusical Emotions: Chills Edition
My interview with Zoe Cormier of Guerilla Science plus the use of galvanic skin response machines at the World Science Festival got me thinking about this post from the archives of SwM that details a...
View ArticleHart’s Science of Sound, Frequency, and Pitch
I ran across this extremely well-done video on the science of sound, frequencies, and pitch via the lovely people on my Twitter feed. This video is an excellent, fun, and engaging explanation of how...
View ArticleHacking towards musical instruments
I recently had the privilege of visiting Splatspace, which is my town’s own little hackerspace in the middle of downtown. I met some passionate people doing amazing things with music and electronics,...
View ArticleRadiolab, full of genius compositions
Jad Abumrad is a genius. I always suspected as much, but it’s always nice to have your suspicions verified by outside sources. Last week, I felt a sort of vicarious and visceral sort of pure joy at...
View ArticleSciMuse: Eva Amsen counting beats and cells
A little over a year ago when I decided to start interviewing scientists who also played music on Science with Moxie, I stumbled across the blog Musicians and Scientists, written by Eva Amsen. She was...
View ArticleThe newest Nobel Laureate is also a musician!
Saul Perlmutter is one of three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics this morning. This news is exciting enough, but Perlmutter is no ordinary Nobel Laureate. I learned from Eva Amsen that...
View ArticleHonoring Dr. Gleason for Ada
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, on which people share how women have influenced them to become who they are today. I’m participating in this by highlighting my undergraduate research advisor, Dr. Evanna...
View ArticleIn Biophilia, Bjork realizes a synesthete’s dream
Go back to the past. You’re a teenager hovered over the liner notes of a cherished new album. Or perhaps your eyes are closed to better absorb all the auditory sensations and to make sure to take in...
View ArticleBeatboxing on the brain
Carolyn McGettigan is a researcher at University College London who studies the neural mechanisms of speech and production. So it was only natural that she teamed up with UK Beatbox champion Reeps One...
View ArticleI’ll be at Society for Neuroscience 2011!
The time has finally come for the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. Over 31,000 neuroscientists are going to descend on Washington DC starting this weekend, and your fearless blogger will be one...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson sings in autotune
It’s no secret that Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of my favorite astrophysicists. So when I saw this morning that he was featured in the latest Symphony of Science video (along with Brian Cox and Carolyn...
View ArticleSwM meets #SfN11!
I’ve been running around Washington DC for the past couple of days, walking from poster to poster wrapping my brain around the latest research in neuroscience and music, then doing some of my own...
View ArticleSwM meets #Sfn11 Day One: Words, Pitch, and Rhythm
Words, pitch, and rhythm. How do these three elements meld together in your brain when you listen to the sung lyrics of a song? Julia Groh of the Max Planck Institute Leipzig explored these questions...
View ArticleSwM meets SfN11 Day Two: Foot-tapping beats
Sometimes upon hearing a song, one feels an almost involuntary need to start to move to it. Is there something about a pulsing dance beat that transcends reason and makes you want to gyrate to the...
View ArticleSinging Auld Lang Syne: SwM 2011 in review
We’re now two days into the year 2012. You’ve recovered from any New Year’s Eve indiscretions by now, your voice is back after belting out Auld Lang Syne, and you’re looking hopefully towards the...
View ArticleA Song like Adele’s
Adele’s song Someone Like You has won both a Grammy and lots of lively speculation as to why people feel moved to tears when they hear it. The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article that...
View ArticleFriday musical performance: Bjork in NYC tonight
I think Tesla would be proud to see his eponymous coils being used to play the melodies of Thunderbolt. I’m just dropping a pointer toward this Bjork performance on Later with Jools Holland for a fun...
View ArticleFriday virtual mixtape: I am a (mad) scientist
The first time I felt like a real scientist was when I started working in a neurobiology lab for the first time as an undergraduate. Running experiments, wearing a lab coat, and working with my hands...
View ArticleMusical tweets for a listening machine
I’ve been swamped lately with finishing up my master’s thesis and have been tweeting occasional gripes and self-created hashtags about the process. #thesisjams might not be inspiring to anyone besides...
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