Cadence Podcast: What Music Tells us About the Mind
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
S04 Episode 08: Connie Tomaino on Music Therapy and Trauma
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a special series within season 4, Indre speaks with Connie Tomaino, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurological F...
S04 Episode 07: Normalizing Tourette Syndrome in the Music World
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ethan Castro is back to talk about his experience with Tourette Syndrome and how it has shaped his path as a musician. We also hear from world-renowne...
S04 Episode 06: Connie Tomaino on Music Therapy for Stroke and Aphasia Pateints
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a special series within season 4, Indre speaks with Connie Tomaino, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurological F...
S04 Episode 05: Hearing Loss and Reshaping the Sonic Landscape
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ethan Castro and Dame Evelyn Glennie, both hearing impaired percussionists, talk through building successful careers as performers and composers n...
S04 Episode 04: Connie Tomaino on Music Therapy and Dementia
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a special series within season 4, Indre speaks with Connie Tomaino, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurological F...
S04 Episode 03: Neurodiversity in the Orchestral World
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are many neurodiverse musicians working professionally in the classical music world, but are orchestras and universities doing enough to make au...
S04 Episode 02: Connie Tomaino on Music Therapy and Parkinson's Disease
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a special series within season 4, Indre speaks with Connie Tomaino, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Fun...
S04 Episode 01: JJJJerome Ellis
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, composer and musician Jerome Ellis tells the story of how his stutter has informed his journey as an artist, and how he explores blackne...
S03 Episode 07: Music and Prisons, Part 2
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
S03 Episode 07: Music and Prisons, Part 2 by Indre Viskontas
S03 Episode 06: Music and Prisons, Part 1
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
S03 Episode 06: Music and Prisons, Part 1 by Indre Viskontas
S03 Episode 05: How Music Affects Animals
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
S03 Episode 05: How Music Affects Animals by Indre Viskontas
S03 Episode 04: Music During the Holidays
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
S03 Episode 04: Music During the Holidays by Indre Viskontas
S03 Episode 03: Why Queer Music Matters
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
S03 Episode 03: Why Queer Music Matters by Indre Viskontas
S03 Episode 02: Lullabies and Feelings
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
S03 Episode 02: Lullabies and Feelings by Indre Viskontas
S03 Episode 01: The Music of Politics
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
S03 Episode 01: The Music of Politics by Indre Viskontas
S02 Episode 08: Music to Remember
10 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode of season 2, we look at the dramatic effects music can have on patients with dementia—in some cases, it can bring back people ...
S02 Episode 07: Putting Music in the Hands of Sick Kids
02 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Watching someone suffer through a serious illness is heartbreaking—especially if it’s a child, and even more if it affects their ability to commun...
S02 Episode 06: The Case of the Autistic Savant: Unleashing Extraordinary Musical Ability
31 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we meet Tony Deblois, an individual with autism who is also blind. Tony can play 23 instruments, has toured all over the world, and h...
S02 Episode 05: Music in the Most Extreme Situations
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was partly taped live during Indre’s faculty artist recital at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. It explores how music can be us...
S02 Episode 04: Rewiring Your Brain to Speak, with Music
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we meet Terry. After a devastating car accident he was left with profound damage to his brain’s left hemisphere, significantly impai...
S02 Episode 03: Writing Songs to Learn English
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we meet Sandra C., a guest at a sanctuary called Rosie's Place for poor and homeless women in Boston. At Rosie's Place, guests are tr...
S02 Episode 02: Drug-Free Dopamine Boost: Music and Parkinson's Disease
02 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we tell the story of a dance class designed for people who are losing the ability to move voluntarily. Mike Gabel, who was diagnosed ...
S02 Episode 01: Losing Genes but Gaining Music
13 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This season, we’re going to focus on music as medicine—telling the stories of people whose lives have been immeasurably improved with music. In th...
Episode 10: Sometimes Behave So Strangely Redux
24 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As we finish up season one, we look back to one of the most famous and strange musical illusions: speech turning into song through repetition. We expl...
Episode 09: Listening Better
08 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It takes years to train your ears - but not necessarily a music degree. Auditory neuroscientist Nina Kraus tells us how musicians listen and therefore...
Episode 08: The Clocks in Your Brain
25 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we continue our exploration of how musicians tell time and how anyone embodies pulse. We talk to Dean Buonomano, a neuroscientist who ...
Episode 07: Feeling the Beat
11 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How do our brains tell where the pulse is in music? Can we improve our sense of rhythm or is it something we're just born with? In this episode, we le...
Episode 06: What Musicians Hear
28 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
You often hear people say that music is good for your brain because it's the only activity that uses all of it. That's not true. And the truth is actu...
Episode 05: Why Do We Like the Music That We Like?
13 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Is there music that is considered universally great? Why do some composers from 18th century European countries still sell out concert halls hundreds ...
Episode 04: What Is Music For?
30 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We take a step back from neuroscience and psychology to listen to what artists have to say about what music is for.
Episode 03: How We Find Meaning in Music
16 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Last episode we met George Shin, who not too long ago received a cochlear implant and started to take piano lessons as part of a study at the Universi...
Episode 02: Are There Universals in Music?
02 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we attempt to find out if there are any universals in music, how the same sounds can go from speech to song, and how our auditory system pro...
Episode 01: What Is Music?
16 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is music? How would you define it? Does it defy definition? In this episode we try to get answers to those questions from from a pioneer in...