Sixty years after those Avant Garde composers of the 1920s, some Japanese musicians followed in their footsteps, exploring the outer reaches of sound with “noise music.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mamek Khadem's soundtrack for an art installation commemorating the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.
Would you like to sharpen your memory? Science writer Joshua Foer tells you how to build an elaborate memory palace.
According to psychologist Meagan Curtis, the inherent sadness of the minor third is what we hear in music.
Filmmaker Astra Taylor believes our digital life is undemocratic -- that we're concentrating power into the hands of giant tech companies, who make money off our posts and tweet. She tells Anne Strainchamps why she believes there should be greater regulation of the Internet.
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis talks about "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind."
Robert Ellis Orrall is a musician who lives in Nashville, on the same street where Al Gore bought a house. So he wrote a song about it!
Mamak Khadem came to America from Iran to finish high school. She began to sing Persian music to stay connected to her homeland.
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