Re:sound #129: The Nerve Show
This hour: how and why we're wired for sound. A look at music and the brain.
2010 / TCF / WBEZ 91.5, USA
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This hour: how and why we're wired for sound. A look at music and the brain.
The Nerve (episode 1): Music and the Brain
by Jowi Taylor, Chris Brookes, and Paolo Pietropaolo ( Inside the Music , CBC, 2009)
Consider music, if you will. Music! Beautiful, wonderful music, which can elevate your mood until you're dancing ecstatically or deplete it until you stop showering for a month; that entire flurry of sensation boils down to wave patterns and neuro-chemical events. Not exactly romantic perhaps, but endlessly fascinating. The Nerve, a six part series from the CBC, explores music and the brain, digging into exactly how and why we're wired for sound.
This episode of Re:sound was produced by Delaney Hall.
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Jowi Taylor is a multiple-award-winning writer and broadcaster best known for his long-running CBC Radio program Global Village, the Peabody Award-winning radio series The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music, and its celebrated companion series, The Nerve: Music and the Human Experience.
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Chris Brookes was an independent radio producer whose audio documentaries won many international awards including the Peabody Award and the Prix Italia.
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Paolo Pietropaolo is a freelance producer, broadcaster and composer based in Vancouver, Canada.
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Delaney Hall (@daphall) is a producer and editor with 99% Invisible .