11 years ago

The Mystery Of Music

Richard Gunderman is a professor in radiology, pediatrics, medical education, philosophy and is the vice-chair of the Radiology Department at Indiana University. Gunderman really ponders the Mystery of Music with his LATEST ARTICLE in The Atlantic: “Like Mac Davis, I believe in music. When I listen to music, or at least certain kinds of music, I feel transported to another place, my mood is elevated, I feel a new sense of harmony, and I am able to focus more clearly on what seems to matter most. A physicist might come along and say that what I call music is merely the scraping of horse’s hairs across cat gut, a mechanical vibration in a particular frequency range. A neurologist might come along and explain that I am merely experiencing the transduction of kinetic energy into electrical energy as processed by neurons in the auditory and higher associative cortices of the brain. And yet, there is something about the music that is hard to reckon in such terms. It would be like saying that a passionate embrace is merely the pressing of flesh on flesh.” Find out yourself and CLICK HERE FOR BRIAN ENO’s – AN ENDING (ASCENT) (photo Osservatore Romano/Reuters)