[NewMusic] improv brain shutdown

[Matt Davignon]

Well, it's been said that people who stutter do so less when they
sing. (I guess the opposite is true for Roger Daltrey.)

...And if someone is in your living room noodling around on a guitar,
ask 'em a question. Sometimes they'll make a funny 'oh' face as they
try to think of the answer and keep playing.

Matt

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:06 PM, barry threw <bthrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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>  On Feb 28, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Matthew Goodheart wrote:
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>  >> 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
>  > matthew at matthewgoodheart.com
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>  > http://myspace.com/matthewgoodheart
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