Music and the Brain

Host Steve Mencher talks with Tod Machover, composer and Director, Professor of Music and Media, and Director of the Opera of the Future Group at MIT.

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2011-05-23/the-future-of-music/

Host Steve Mencher talks with Dr. Deforia Lane, Director of Music Therapy, Univeristy Hospitals of Cleveland.

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2011-05-23/music-therapy-alzheimers-and-post-traumatic-stress-dr-deforia-lane/

Host Steve Mencher talks with Alicia Clair about Music Therapy, Alzheimer’s and Post-Traumatic Stress.

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2011-02-15/music-therapy-alzheimers-and-post-traumatic-stress-alicia-clair/

Host Steve Mencher talks with Music and the Brain Series advisor Kay Redfield Jamison about her book Nothing Was The Same.

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2010-11-18/music-and-grief/

Host Steve Mencher talks with Dr. Jayne Standley, Director of the Music Therapy Program, Florida State University.

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2010-09-22/wellness-and-growth-acoustic-medicine-and-music-therapy-dr-jayne-standley/

Host Steve Mencher talks with Dr. Vera Brandes, Director, Research Program Music Medicine, Paracelsus Medical Private University, Salzburg.

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2010-09-10/wellness-and-growth-acoustic-medicine-and-music-therapy-dr-vera-brandes/

Steve Mencher from the Library of Congress talks with Concetta M. Tomaino, Executive Director, Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, about “The Positive Effects of Music Therapy on Healt...

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2010-04-29/the-positive-effects-of-music-therapy-on-health/

Host Steve Mencher and Professor David Huron, Head of Ohio State University’s Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory,answer to the question in a conversation on emotions, the brain and ...

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2010-04-29/why-do-listeners-enjoy-music-that-makes-them-weep/

Dr. Peter Janata, associate professor at University of California, Davis, and member of the Center for Mind and Brain talks with Steve Mencher about how the brain creates an autobiographical soun...

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2010-04-29/music-memories-and-the-brain/

Dr. Gottfried Schlaug, Director of the Music, Neuroimaging and Stroke Recovery Laboratories, Beth Deaconess Israel Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, talks with host Steve Mencher about t...

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2010-04-29/making-music-changes-brains/

Steve Mencher from the Library of Congress talks to Dr. Robin Sylvan, Director of the Sacred Center, El Cerrito, California about “Trance Formation: Music, Trance, Religious Experience, and the...

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2009-11-22/music-trance-religious-experience-and-the-brain/

Steve Mencher from the Library of Congress discusses “States of Mind: Music in Islamic Sufi Rituals” with Dr. Taoufiq ben Amor, Gordon Gray J. Lecturer, Arabic Studies, Columbia University.

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2009-11-14/states-of-mind-music-in-islamic-sufi-rituals/

Dr. Richard E. Cytowic, MD, of George Washington Medical Center discusses his presentation “Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia.”

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2009-10-30/wednesday-is-indigo-blue-discovering-the-brain-of-synesthesia/

Michael Kubovy and Judith Shatin of the University of Virginia discuss their presentation “The Mind of an Artist.” Debate has long raged about whether and how music expresses meaning beyond i...

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2009-06-01/the-mind-of-the-artist/

Helfgott and Middleton examine the use of classical music by law enforcement and other cultural institutions as social control, to quell and prevent crime. Their conversation touches on how class...

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2009-04-16/halt-or-ill-play-vivaldi-classical-music-as-crime-stopper/

From Mode to Emotion in Musical Communication: Steven Brown, Director of the NeuroArts Lab at McMaster University, discusses his work looking at the expression of emotion in both Western and non-...

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2009-03-27/from-mode-to-emotion-in-musical-communication/

Artistic anathemas, musical mayhem, and cultural conundrums such as “the devil’s music” – Middleton and Krash explore the psychological and social issues associated with the human tendenc...

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2009-01-29/dangerous-music/

Johns Hopkins otolaryngolost and jazz musician Charles Limb talks about “The Brain on Jazz”–Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Improvisation.”

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2008-12-08/your-brain-on-jazz-neural-substrates-of-spontaneous-improvisation/

Daniel Levitin’s new book The World in Six Songs has attracted a serious fan following, including Sting, Joni Mitchell and Willie Nelson. Neuroscientist, rock producer, and best selling author ...

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2008-11-18/the-world-in-six-songs-how-the-musical-brain-created-human-nature/

In our everyday lives language and instrumental music are obviously different things. Neuroscientist and musician Ani Patel is the author of a recent, elegantly argued offering from Oxford Univer...

https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2008-11-07/the-music-of-language-and-the-language-of-music/