Synopsis
Music has a way of minding our brains, and Mind the Music explores the effects that it has on our cognition, emotion, and behaviour. As well as into the fabric of our culture, music is woven into the fabric of our humanity – but where does it come from, and how does it help us to learn?
Intuition and improvisation turn out to be critical to understanding our own embodied cognition. We have hunches in a way that computers do not. But as technology takes over what were once human tasks, there is a temptation and even tendency to enjoy our creature comforts while neglecting our natural faculties. So how do we re-learn the ability to improvise, to help us find our place in the nexus of human and machine?
Mind the Music is a reminder that it is important to keep your brain active, and an argument for the glory of intuitive choices. It dares you to improvise and dance to the music of the mind.
About the Author
Artur C. Jaschke received his bachelor's degree in music (double bass and drums) from Dartington College of Arts (United Kingdom) and the University of Otago (New Zealand). During this period he already developed a strong interest in musical cognition and the neurology of music, he obtained his Master's degree at the University of Amsterdam, in Musicology and Music Cognition and his PhD from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in clinical Neuropsychology with a specialization in Clinical Neuromusicology.
He is a lecturer at the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research in England.
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