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The Neuroscience Of Musical Perception, Bass Guitars And Drake

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Recent research hints at how the human brain is uniquely able to recognize and enjoy music. Timing in your brain is nearly everything. (article written by Bret Stetka)

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The Soloist: the true story behind Joe Wright's cello drama

How a journalist discovered a musical prodigy 

Steve Lopez is living a reality most journalists only fantasise about. Four and a half years ago he wrote a column for the Los Angeles Times which, at least at the time, he thought was little different from the hundreds of others he had produced in his long and fertile career. But the column, about a homeless musician who once attended the prestigious Juilliard School in New York, hit an extraordinary chord in his readers.

  Nathaniel Ayers presented a remarkably compelling story – here was a man with an almost preternatural gift for music, struck at an early age by schizophrenia and reduced to a life of quiet   despair, despite his undiminished talent, on the streets of LA's Skid Row.