Cadence Podcast: What Music Tells us About the Mind
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Cadence Podcast: What Music Tells us About the Mind
Cadence is a podcast about music: how it affects your brain, your life, and the community in which you live. Join our host, cognitive neuroscientist and classically trained opera singer Indre Viskontas while we talk to scientists, musicians, musicologists, and composers to find answers to some of...
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S04 Episode 08: Connie Tomaino on Music Therapy and Trauma
In a special series within season 4, Indre speaks with Connie Tomaino, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurological F...
S04 Episode 07: Normalizing Tourette Syndrome in the Music World
Ethan Castro is back to talk about his experience with Tourette Syndrome and how it has shaped his path as a musician. We also hear from world-renowne...
S04 Episode 06: Connie Tomaino on Music Therapy for Stroke and Aphasia Pateints
In a special series within season 4, Indre speaks with Connie Tomaino, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurological F...
S04 Episode 05: Hearing Loss and Reshaping the Sonic Landscape
Dr. Ethan Castro and Dame Evelyn Glennie, both hearing impaired percussionists, talk through building successful careers as performers and composers n...
S04 Episode 04: Connie Tomaino on Music Therapy and Dementia
In a special series within season 4, Indre speaks with Connie Tomaino, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurological F...
S04 Episode 03: Neurodiversity in the Orchestral World
There are many neurodiverse musicians working professionally in the classical music world, but are orchestras and universities doing enough to make au...
S04 Episode 02: Connie Tomaino on Music Therapy and Parkinson's Disease
In a special series within season 4, Indre speaks with Connie Tomaino, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Fun...
S04 Episode 01: JJJJerome Ellis
This episode, composer and musician Jerome Ellis tells the story of how his stutter has informed his journey as an artist, and how he explores blackne...
S03 Episode 07: Music and Prisons, Part 2
S03 Episode 07: Music and Prisons, Part 2 by Indre Viskontas
S03 Episode 06: Music and Prisons, Part 1
S03 Episode 06: Music and Prisons, Part 1 by Indre Viskontas
S03 Episode 05: How Music Affects Animals
S03 Episode 05: How Music Affects Animals by Indre Viskontas
S03 Episode 04: Music During the Holidays
S03 Episode 04: Music During the Holidays by Indre Viskontas
S03 Episode 03: Why Queer Music Matters
S03 Episode 03: Why Queer Music Matters by Indre Viskontas
S03 Episode 02: Lullabies and Feelings
S03 Episode 02: Lullabies and Feelings by Indre Viskontas
S03 Episode 01: The Music of Politics
S03 Episode 01: The Music of Politics by Indre Viskontas
S02 Episode 08: Music to Remember
In this final episode of season 2, we look at the dramatic effects music can have on patients with dementia—in some cases, it can bring back people wh...
S02 Episode 07: Putting Music in the Hands of Sick Kids
Watching someone suffer through a serious illness is heartbreaking—especially if it’s a child, and even more if it affects their ability to communicat...
S02 Episode 06: The Case of the Autistic Savant: Unleashing Extraordinary Musical Ability
In this episode, we meet Tony Deblois, an individual with autism who is also blind. Tony can play 23 instruments, has toured all over the world, and h...
S02 Episode 05: Music in the Most Extreme Situations
This episode was partly taped live during Indre’s faculty artist recital at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. It explores how music can be used...
S02 Episode 04: Rewiring Your Brain to Speak, with Music
In this episode we meet Terry. After a devastating car accident he was left with profound damage to his brain’s left hemisphere, significantly impairi...
S02 Episode 03: Writing Songs to Learn English
In this episode, we meet Sandra C., a guest at a sanctuary called Rosie's Place for poor and homeless women in Boston. At Rosie's Place, guests are tr...
S02 Episode 02: Drug-Free Dopamine Boost: Music and Parkinson's Disease
In this episode, we tell the story of a dance class designed for people who are losing the ability to move voluntarily. Mike Gabel, who was diagnosed...
S02 Episode 01: Losing Genes but Gaining Music
This season, we’re going to focus on music as medicine—telling the stories of people whose lives have been immeasurably improved with music. In this e...
Episode 10: Sometimes Behave So Strangely Redux
As we finish up season one, we look back to one of the most famous and strange musical illusions: speech turning into song through repetition. We expl...
Episode 09: Listening Better
It takes years to train your ears - but not necessarily a music degree. Auditory neuroscientist Nina Kraus tells us how musicians listen and therefore...
Episode 08: The Clocks in Your Brain
In this episode we continue our exploration of how musicians tell time and how anyone embodies pulse. We talk to Dean Buonomano, a neuroscientist who...
Episode 07: Feeling the Beat
How do our brains tell where the pulse is in music? Can we improve our sense of rhythm or is it something we're just born with? In this episode, we le...
Episode 06: What Musicians Hear
You often hear people say that music is good for your brain because it's the only activity that uses all of it. That's not true. And the truth is actu...
Episode 05: Why Do We Like the Music That We Like?
Is there music that is considered universally great? Why do some composers from 18th century European countries still sell out concert halls hundreds...
Episode 04: What Is Music For?
We take a step back from neuroscience and psychology to listen to what artists have to say about what music is for.
Episode 03: How We Find Meaning in Music
Last episode we met George Shin, who not too long ago received a cochlear implant and started to take piano lessons as part of a study at the Universi...
Episode 02: Are There Universals in Music?
This week we attempt to find out if there are any universals in music, how the same sounds can go from speech to song, and how our auditory system pro...
Episode 01: What Is Music?
What is music? How would you define it? Does it defy definition? In this episode we try to get answers to those questions from from a pioneer in musi...