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07-01-2009, 10:40 AM
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a PBS anthology. Fascinating stuff. |
07-01-2009, 01:57 PM
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07-01-2009, 02:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | Yeah I caught that last night. That was the show with the kid that had severe Tourette's but could drum like a madman, right?
It was crazy, it was like he was channeling Keith Moon or something. They never really showed any clips of him playing a groove, but he could really get around the kit.
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07-01-2009, 02:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Austin, TX | | | I saw it, too. I thought it was pretty cool. The autistic pianist was something to see/hear, wasn't he? |
07-01-2009, 03:46 PM
|  | Fretless is like trombone, right? | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Twin Cities, MN | | Nuts. I wanted to catch this. It sounded like a fascinating show.
Have to check on rebroadcasts.
Not to derail the thread, but in the same vein, did anyone catch the Billy McLaughlin documentary on his dealing with focal dystonia? http://www.billymacmusic.com/dystonia.shtml
A very enlightening presentation. I recommend watching if you get the opportunity.
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07-01-2009, 11:31 PM
| | Registered User | | | | | There's another more recent one airing on PBS that has to do with the brain development of musicians brains as compared to non musicians, how there is significanlty more left / right hemisphere communication, the music centers of the brain, how stroke victims that can no longer speak can still sing and how they use that to teach them how to communicate verbally again...
I think that one is called "Musical Minds"
Both of those programs are worth an hour of your life.
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07-01-2009, 11:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Los Angeles | | | Maybe there will be a "music" pill one day to improve your musicality? |
07-02-2009, 02:53 AM
|  | So much flame, it burns............ | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Las Vegas, NV. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Stumbo  Maybe there will be a "music" pill one day to improve your musicality? | Oh, they had those in the 60's already. 
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07-02-2009, 08:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Austin, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve There's another more recent one airing on PBS that has to do with the brain development of musicians brains as compared to non musicians, how there is significanlty more left / right hemisphere communication, the music centers of the brain, how stroke victims that can no longer speak can still sing and how they use that to teach them how to communicate verbally again...
I think that one is called "Musical Minds"
Both of those programs are worth an hour of your life. | Actually, that is the one that this thread is about. |
07-02-2009, 07:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Metro Motown | | PBS,is streaming the vid this week 7-1-09 thru 7-7-09. Musical Minds. |
07-02-2009, 08:23 PM
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I still think the lightning strike guy is full of BS, he just wanted to quit being a doctor. 
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07-03-2009, 01:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Dirk Diggler . . . I still think the lightning strike guy is full of BS, he just wanted to quit being a doctor.
Dirk | In the documetary he was still a doctor but got divorced, so I think he just wanted to quit being a husband. |
07-04-2009, 11:33 AM
| | Fretless is like trombone, right? | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Twin Cities, MN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve There's another more recent one airing on PBS that has to do with the brain development of musicians brains as compared to non musicians, how there is significanlty more left / right hemisphere communication, the music centers of the brain, how stroke victims that can no longer speak can still sing and how they use that to teach them how to communicate verbally again... | My mother suffered a stroke at age 75 that caused some some pretty serious cognitive problems. She had earned a B.A., an M.A., and done post-graduate work in English. She also played piano and violin.
After the stroke, she had a hard time with memory, the meaning of words, and her math and number skills became almost non-existent; math was nearly impossible, and even remembering phone numbers was hard. However, she could still sit at the piano and play from any of her music, with very few errors. It was more difficult than before, but it was the closest she could come to "normal" in all of her daily activities.
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07-04-2009, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Fab_Superlative | Thank you, very much. I just finished watching the episode. The power of the brain is awe-inspiring.
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07-04-2009, 01:14 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | I haven't seen the special but is it based on work by Oliver Sacks? It sounds a LOT like his new book Musicophilia which I recommend.
Actually I recommend all of his books, especially Anthropologist on Mars. |
07-04-2009, 01:54 PM
| | Fretless is like trombone, right? | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Twin Cities, MN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBigO I haven't seen the special but is it based on work by Oliver Sacks? It sounds a LOT like his new book Musicophilia which I recommend.
Actually I recommend all of his books, especially Anthropologist on Mars. | That is it. He is a participant in the program, and also a subject of one of the studies.
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