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Music making as a “Fountain of Youth,” pt. 4
It’s long past time to get to the fourth and final installment of the series about “making music as a fountain of youth.” So here we are. This series has been stretched out over several months, so you may want to go back to reread the first and third posts. But to give a short…
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Memory and falling dominoes
The Starry Night is regarded as one of Vincent Van Gogh’s best works and is probably one of the most well-known images in art, having been appropriated for everything from mugs to mouse pads to desktop wallpaper. I recently happened upon a very unusual version of Starry Night – a video of the iconic image created by falling dominoes. As I…
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The many kinds of memory in music
In music we often talk about auditory, visual, and motor memory. But outside of the music world, we encounter a dizzying array of memory terms. We read about short-term vs. long-term, explicit vs. implicit, declarative vs. procedural, semantic vs. episodic – and more. So what do all of these terms mean in relationship to memory…