#9 Improvisation: Life's Most Important Trait?
Depth Charge
English - April 09, 2020 08:21 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBMusic Arts Food music food culture comedy Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week we talk about improvisation, in music and in life. We also dig a little bit into the neuroscience - what's going on in the brain when musicians improvise. Some of the questions that came up are: Is improvisation something you can learn? Do you need to overcome fear to be able to do it? Is it involved in ordinary speech? As a musician how do you practice improvisation? How do you approach it?
If you're interested in the brain science you can read more about it in the links:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200331130104.htm
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/this_is_your_brain_on_jazz_researchers_use_mri_to_study_spontaneity_creativity
http://www.openculture.com/2019/11/neuroscience-jazz-improvisation.html
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