Scientific studies claim that modern music has become simpler than ever before, both lyrically and musically. But are they ...

A moving collection of vocal works, including world premiere recordings of music by the eminent Hungarian composer Gyorgy ...

Last year the Residents celebrated the 50th anniversary of their debut, Meet the Residents. But the theatrical, quixotically ...

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised ...

Creativity is notoriously difficult to study as it unfolds, but musical improvisation offers a rare chance to watch spontaneous idea-generation in action.

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The ideas presented in George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan's The Neural Mind are fascinating, but the writing is far less ...

Neuroscientists are closing in on a striking idea: some brain cells appear to be tuned specifically to music, firing in ...

The quest to reclaim the aura of analogue from digital domination continues, this time in the shape of a new music player devised by the musician Tom Vek. Sleevenote is a ‘mindful music player’, a ...

Without any real sense of plot or progression, “The Emotions” weaves in and out of Detrez’s memory in first-person narration, ...

You might start re-cluttering your house with new, tasteful objects. The bad distractions are mostly gone. The question is, ...

Coleman Warner is a journalist and cultural historian, and can be contacted at [email protected].