Professor David Sulzer

Broschiertes Buch

Music, Math, and Mind

The Physics and Neuroscience of Music

Beschreibung

This book offers a lively exploration of the mathematics, physics, and neuroscience that underlie music. Written for musicians and music lovers with any level of science and math proficiency, including none, Music, Math, and Mind demystifies how music works while testifying to its beauty and wonder.

Autor

David Sulzer is a professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Pharmacology at Columbia University Medical Center. His laboratory has made important contributions to the study of brain mechanisms involved in autism, Parkinson¿s disease, drug addiction, and learning and memory. He is also a composer and performer under the name Dave Soldier and has worked with many major figures in the classical, jazz, and pop worlds, appearing on over one hundred records. Some of his projects bridge music and neuroscience, including the Thai Elephant Orchestra, an orchestra of fourteen elephants in northern Thailand, and the Brainwave Music Project, which uses EEGs of brain activity to create compositions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780231193795
• ISBN-10: 0231193793
• Artikelnr.: 59581675