The answer is 12. 12 great.
Great "Seed Session", with David Byrne (a musical genius, up there with Stevie in the hero rankings) and Prof. Daniel Levitin (used to be a session musician and sound engineer, but now is James McGill professor of behavioral neuroscience and music at McGill University) having a good old natter about the neuroscience of music and all dat wicked shit man...
DB: So when you watch a performance, sports for example, you're not only watching somebody else do it. In a neurological kind of way, you're experiencing it.
DL:Yeah, exactly. And when you see a musician, especially if you're a musician yourself--
DB: —air guitar.
DL: Air guitar, right! And you can't turn it off—it's without your conscious awareness. So mirror neurons seem to have played a very important role in the evolution of the species because we can learn by watching, rather than having to actually figure it out step-by-step.
2 comments:
I hold second-hand musical neurological experience responsible for encouraging the public to think that they're musicians.
Look at the TV schedules - that's quite a crime.
Second-hand musical neurological experience is a dick.
well I was down the shops with Second-hand musical neurological experience the other day, he said that you was like well minging, innit.
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