#MathScienceMusic

Led by award-winning jazz artist, composer and Harvard Professor Vijay Iyer, this project features writings - published and unpublished - and video lectures on an area of inquiry known as Music Cognition with scholars from different disciplines - musicians, neuroscientists, psychologists, computer scientists - exploring the very notion of music and delving into fundamental questions such as: how does music work? How does it relate to us as human beings? And how do we make sense of it?
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[@rockymartin7766]

Vijay's reaction to the person coming in the room, lol. super comfortable with silence and patience. he's an inspiration for sure

[@archer_root]

This is superb and straightforward. If viewers enjoy this presentation, check out the work of Daniel Dennett, as well. Gratitude to Vijay Iyer for all the joy he brings to his listening participants.

[@dylanthomaswalter]

nice to finally hear someone in the field refuting Steven Pinker's horrible ideas about music. don't get me wrong, i think he's a brilliant guy but his thoughts on music and art, particularly anything "modern" or "avant-garde," are downright hostile, irrational and very off-balance. Vijay Iyer... great guy.

[@somwrita_sarkar_yarny_hobbit]

Truly amazed to hear about Steven Pinker's views - since I would have thought that making a universal jump or connection from "The Language Instinct" to "The Frequency/Sound Instinct" would be totally self-evident. If we think of syntactic structures (in the Chomsky way) - then music and its evolution would have deeper and more fundamental syntactic (and semantic) structures than language...the atomistic embodied blocks with which we learn how to think, much before we have formed external representations of complex concepts, which is what language finally enables us to do....its almost like thinking in music is a completely parallel and different way of thinking as compared to thinking in language...

[@tubekook55]

That aspect of music as reflecting physical life and experience, the illustrations of voice, footsteps and the Doppler effect is so compelling and beautifully expressed in Steve Tibbets' "Three Letters Part 2" (on the album Big Map Idea) : the shouting of the child, the sound of running. (Although I would guess that Steve Tibbets might attribute a different meaning and significance to music.) A wonderful talk by Mr. Iyer. (His choice to play "Human Nature" takes on new meaning.) Some thoughts: Many of the theories of evolutionary biology seem as teleological, in a different own way, as those of certain religion. This much tendency of thought seems much stronger by some in the discipline than others. (I don't see that here with Mr. Iyer.) I wonder, relatedly, if predicating upon considerations of utility, in itself, might similarly limit broader possibilities of understanding. (Mr. Iyer does seem to be going beyond this.) It would seem that the framing of empirical questions itself imposes constrictions on the range of understanding, and a strict adherence of only empiricism, however reasoned, itself contains a certain inescapable ontological bias. There is nowhere, in any system of faith or knowledge, a satisfactory explain of consciousness. Music, more than any other form of art and expression, seems clearly to involve states of extraordinary consciousness. I wonder if consideration of this aspect could be fruitfully approached, or if it is unbridegable. Thank you.

[@local-teen]

This is wonderful. Thank you so much.

[@btwjackets2]

this is a great video, thanks for sharing!

[@daleperkins7428]

Interesting concepts, I appreciate your interest in explaining music’s origins

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

love your work!!

[@giringuha4229]

Embodied Cognition FTW!