Humans

Music, sound, media and people. Yes, people, meaning  human beings. You and me. Us and them. Anyone, everyone. Somebody, everybody. I would like to take this occasion to thank you all, ... everybody! --for making this whole experience possible!

Here's a question: did you ever wonder who or what you were before you were human? And who or what you will be if (or when) you become something else? These questions are fine even when left unanswered, answers are optional. Or they will come eventually.

I'm almost done reading "The Spiritual Brain  : A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul" - Mario Beauregard & Denyse O'Leary. It's a great read, regardless of your predispositions on the subject, as long as you approach this with a minimum of open-mindedness. The book asks the question: Did God create the brain or does the brain create God? Eventually, the same question(s) apply to the Cosmos as a whole: is the Universe alive, is it the home of a sentient Super-Being? What is Space? And what came first, the chicken or the egg? Only Time will tell ... 

BRAMS - International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research

BRAMS (International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research, "Laboratoire international de recherche sur le cerveau, la musique et le son" in french) is a research unit affiliated with the University of Montreal, McGill University and the Montreal Neurological Institute. BRAMS is devoted to the study of music cognition with a focus on neuroscience.

BRAMS exists to address the following questions: Why is the brain musical? How does the structure and function of the nervous system allow us to listen to, remember, play, and respond to music? How are these functions related to others such as understanding speech? How do these processes change during development, and how do they break down in disease?
[ ... excerpt from BRAMS web site, continue reading here ... ]

Wow! That is fascinating research. And it's happenning here in Montréal !

You might also apreciate this paper, The Nature Of Music from BRAMS Co-director, Isabelle Peretz, who also runs her own lab: Isabelle Peretz Reaseach Laboratory.

That is music to my ears !