Jonah Lehrer
Writer and contributor discussing neuroscience and music, providing narrative context about composers like Stravinsky and brain-chemistry explanations in the episode.
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Sep 24, 2007 • 59min
Musical Language
Jonah Lehrer, writer exploring neuroscience and music; David Cope, composer who built a computer that writes in composers' styles; Diana Deutsch, psychologist who studies pitch and musical illusions. They probe how speech can become song, why some cultures develop perfect pitch, how brains crave musical pattern, and whether machines can truly compose.
