Your Brain on Music with Matmos and Daniel J. Levitin

21st February 2007

This week on The Sound of Young America, we explode your brain with the power of music and ideas. Our first guest, Daniel J. Levitin, is the author of “This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of Human Obsession.” Levitin a former record producer, who today is a neuroscientist studying the relationship between the […]

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This week on The Sound of Young America, we explode your brain with the power of music and ideas.

Our first guest, Daniel J. Levitin, is the author of “This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of Human Obsession.” Levitin a former record producer, who today is a neuroscientist studying the relationship between the brain and music.

Then we speak with the electronic music duo Matmos. Their new album, “The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast,” presents ten biographical sketches of historical figures they admire. The music itself is composed of sounds related to the figures, including a cow’s reproductive system played in the manner of a bagpipe.

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