[NewMusic] improv brain shutdown

[barry threw]

Back when I was in college at Berklee, there was a kid who had pretty  
bad tourette's syndrome. He had intense muscle tics, but when he would  
play and improvise, he was completely still. Pretty amazing stuff.

b


On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Matthew Goodheart wrote:

>> For other cool stories and research about music and the brain I
>> recommend Oliver Sach's "Musicophilia"
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> I'll also put in a bid for Steven Mithen's "The Singing Neanderthals"
> - great stuff about the evolutionary origins of music, with lots o'
> neurology to boot. . .
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> Matthew Goodheart
> composer ~ improviser ~ pianist
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