Imagine this: You’re in the gym, you have one more set to do before you’re done. In finishing the last set you pick up those weights and the sweat falls. As the sweat falls, you struggle to lift your weights; you’re getting tired. Just as your tiredness begins to take over, BAM the beat drops […]

Modern technology allows us to escape the audial reality that surrounds us and delve into a world of music inside our heads. Walking down the sidewalk, it seems over half the people I pass are wearing headphones or earbuds (often myself included). While some people may be listening to a podcast or audio book (just […]

What defines something as music? In this moment, take a pause, and think of some words that come to mind when you consider this question… Perhaps you thought up words regarding our perception of music: rhythm, timbre, pitch. Maybe you thought of words surrounding the physics of music: frequency, amplitude, waves. Some words may have […]

Despite the name, this first blog post is not about being murdered by music (RIP Branch’s grandma from Trolls). Nor is it about Musicophilia, a term coined by Oliver Sacks in his book Musicophilia to describe the curious case where physical trauma results in a life-changing musical obsession. An example, portrayed in Sack’s book, is […]