Haines Music Department

It is airing as I type this and it really is amazing, fascinating research about music and how it affects the brain. There is a great deal of research being presented and much of it seems to be new/recent. It is called “The Music Instint: Science and Song” and it’s on WTTW. It will be airing again – here is what the website says for air times — set your DVRs!

regular WTTW and WTTW HD: Friday, June 26 at 2:30 AM (aka very late Thursday night)

WTTW Prime: Thursday June 25 at 3:00 PM

Hopefully it will be airing more times in the coming weeks but that is all that is on the website as of this writing.

Here is the blurb from WTTW’s site:

“An exploration of the music-mind interaction that delves into the neuroscience of how melodies and rhythms affect and influence the brain, featuring jazz vocalist Bobby McFerrin, classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie and rockers Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley. Included: the link between the brain’s auditory and motor regions, which can be used to help people with Parkinson’s disease and stroke patients. McFerrin and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin host.”

There website is such that I can’t get a good link that goes straight to the info for this program, but you can find some info by going to www.wttw.com and searching ”the music instinct.” Enjoy.

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