https://adrianabarton.com/blog daily 0.75 2025-09-26 https://adrianabarton.com/blog/a-musical-happening-in-paris monthly 0.5 2025-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/aef02898-50f1-4b1a-af2c-c21cbb12d1cb/Barco3.jpg Blog - A Musical Happening in Paris - Make it stand out Installation entitled Nossa Barco Tambor Terra in the newly restored Nave of the Grand Palais. Photo: Adriana Barton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/850b0f26-719e-4cbb-ab84-5000f8d9f726/Barco2.jpg Blog - A Musical Happening in Paris - Make it stand out Inside Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s monumental work of crochet. 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Right: Blackfoot teepee from 1880, photo in U.S. and Canadian public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/0a16b957-b084-4809-9881-9db1eb5802a8/1.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Introduction Collectors of vintage keyboards can get so into ‘80s synth sounds, they paint the walls to match! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/bf56b4be-e84c-43b4-bd5b-62a882f16d6a/4.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Introduction - Make it stand out Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, designed by the late Canadian architect Arthur Erickson. I remember being unnerved as spectators peered at the orchestra from the sides of the wraparound auditorium. 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Seeing my bow like this was a shock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/1691090000862-7ZJWR2MLK2457RSBGPVU/8.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Introduction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/1687281469355-7YB2M1EJ9YCENSND82XD/harold-rhodes-with-air-corps-piano_Post.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Introduction - Harold Rhodes with metal tone bars https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/1687281286065-Y95EPDXN8J40OBYJFKSM/9.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Introduction - Bedside "Pre-Piano" by Rhodes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/1687282511898-FYDAU3CWKB78ZTJUE2EJ/cropped-Ray_Manzarek_1968-Ray+Manzarek+performing+live+with+the+Doors+in+1968+using+a+Rhodes+Piano+Bass-credit-Polfoto-Jan+Persson.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Introduction - Ray Manzarek, Rhodes Piano Bass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/1687281734563-RWTPJIUFPICN7RY1BB6U/13.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Introduction - Rattles from Costa Rica (date unknown) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/1687281762853-UL2JGR6UA9QAHW5HUHGM/14.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Introduction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/1687283354117-XN77NGI2AVMKSN585C3Z/cropped-Musical_instruments_of_prehistory.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Introduction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/83afcb1d-3155-42f0-acec-f1d25224743f/3.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Introduction Canada’s National Arts Centre in Ottawa: What a thrill it was to perform in the same auditorium where I’d watched cellists Mischa Maisky and Yo-Yo Ma play. Photo SamuelDuval, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/0a00725c-b060-457f-a88c-da8e052092d8/5.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Introduction - Make it stand out Carnegie Hall in New York City looks as magnificent today as it must have on opening night in 1891, when composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted on stage. Photo Tdorante10, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/3ab52e34-6e31-42e9-94e0-399964f0dbd3/2.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Introduction The putamen is a key structure involved in motor movement—and is stimulated by music. Illustration adapted from image in Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/73cc797d-9727-4206-bb0b-b9747ab9e766/putamen.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Introduction Official logo created after President George Bush declared the ‘90s the “Decade of the Brain.” (Graphic design has come a long way since then!) Image U.S. public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/02e3a558-04e4-40ac-88e2-bba1c4a4e970/661px-Israeli_National_Maritime_Museum-_Fgurine_Iron_Age_IIb.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Introduction - Make it stand out Iron Age figurine playing a drum. Photo Israeli National Maritime Museum, Creative Commons. https://adrianabarton.com/visual-guide/wired-for-music-the-visual-companion-chapter-1-strings-attached monthly 0.5 2024-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/55e37286-dc44-4c0e-a0b3-0036cd361adc/11.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached - Make it stand out Montreal dazzled me with its Paris-in-North-America flair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/5ac737c9-f762-493a-a9a5-21e444374836/thumbnail_IMG_3534.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached To this day, although I stopped playing the cello three decades ago, the left pinkie on my fingering hand stretches a full inch farther than the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/0379973c-b39d-4d96-86e4-0a51761109e4/Untitled+design+%282%29.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached At age 18, in my second year of university studies in Cleveland, I dressed as a “vampire victim” for Halloween. I smiled for the camera (left) but inside, my self-doubt as a musician was draining the life out of me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/019f286a-893e-4001-bf97-5cf489be2739/9.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached - Make it stand out I spent my first two years of university studying at the Cleveland Institute of Music, built in the late 1950s in University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio. Photo in public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/84dc3f06-e284-424e-bc0b-552e168e1449/4-Barton-ganglion.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached A ganglion cyst: Mine were larger and in each wrist, erupting near the start of my freshman year as a scholarship student in Cleveland. Photo GEMalone, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/5c79cf6a-f02a-4f1e-a578-d3d4c4bb9697/Chapel_Pictures_550.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached A contemplative event at Loyola Chapel on the Concordia University campus. In the same chapel, I performed solo Bach in a vigil to commemorate the victims of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre. Photo via Hospitality Concordia fonds, Concordia University Records Management and Archives, Reference code I0042. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/4cb6971c-9c42-4acf-9f6c-52e996b44c11/5.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached I still have the vinyl album Yo-Yo Ma signed for me when I turned 16: “To Adriana Happy Birthday!!! + good wishes for S.S. etc. etc. YYM.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/628155f7-db0b-4e30-a4f6-96f9d57f5818/Untitled+design+%284%29.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached - Make it stand out Two of the rocks stars I greeted as a radio-station receptionist. Left: Alice Cooper, photo Biha, Creative Commons. Right: the late Meatloaf, photo Super Festivals, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/e9724fd6-d485-4146-8bd3-c647e9736724/4.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached - Make it stand out Left: Me at age 15, with ten years of cello under my belt. Right: In this sketch by my mom, I have no body, no heart — just contorted fingers and a look of intense concentration. ©Susan Feindel. Reproduction in any form prohibited without written permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/5ad3de40-c5a3-4730-8e28-12fb2ed524a9/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow_MET_37.14.31.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, circa 1850. In his prose collection Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, published in the 1830s, Longfellow penned the phrase “Music is the universal language of mankind.” A romantic ideal turned cliché. To the modern ear, this phrase has colonial undertones. Out of all the world’s music, which did he consider to be the “universal language”? Photo in public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/1687390158186-55FTRB1DMKRR862WLAXN/thumbnail_IMG_5224.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached - Program cover, Nov. 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/1687390274794-FSZ312AHUWHVOE5HFPV8/thumbnail_IMG_5226.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached - Performers' names inside https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/1ecdcd10-b067-4e56-a2f2-66cf9f43f1fd/1.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached - Make it stand out My mother, the artist Susan Feindel, painted this watercolor of the late Ottawa-based luthier Joseph Kun — inventor of the “Kun” violin rest. His beautifully crafted cello and violin bows became collectors’ items after his death in 1996. ©Susan Feindel. Reproduction in any form prohibited without written permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/eb734f94-83c1-4344-801c-586be90326db/3.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached As a child, I spent three or four nights a week in the grim state-run conservatory (far left) on the campus of l’Université du Québec in Hull, across the river from Ottawa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/eb616c16-bbc3-4c5f-89b4-ab6a0f871d94/12.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached “How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.” Photo Wholtone, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/4354944a-4998-4c1e-9aaa-7d8e74b1cef5/cello-scars.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached A previous owner must have dragged my century-old cello on hard surfaces, roughening the edges on both sides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/3d749041-d7e7-43e7-ae97-57f7405a934c/me+in+lesson.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached - Make it stand out In this drawing with my first cello teacher (left), I am about nine years old. I look solemn and melancholy in every sketch my mom did of me playing the cello. ©Susan Feindel. Reproduction in any form prohibited without written permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/c6f5e7b6-d7b8-46ce-aee9-1b721f0cb112/Untitled+design+%283%29.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached Louise Hay’s book on positive affirmations was all the rage in the 1990s. But much as I tried, I couldn’t self-help my way out of cello-induced tendinitis and debilitating self-doubt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/39a75e6a-5e32-4bdd-96ba-5d0640a8da35/The_Cleveland_Orchestra_being_conducted_by_Daniel_Reith_at_Severance_Hall_January_15th_2023.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 1: Strings Attached - Make it stand out Home of the Cleveland Orchestra: Severance Hall. During my studies in Cleveland, I received regular free tickets to see this magnificent orchestra, led at the time by the brilliant conductor Christoph von Dohnányi. Photo Cbusram, Creative Commons. https://adrianabarton.com/visual-guide/wired-for-music-the-visual-companion-chapter-2-the-music-instinct monthly 0.5 2024-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/3f4468b0-6ffc-40b2-a242-20f0b3c5a66d/1280px-Comparison_of_size_of_chimpanzee_%28Pan_troglodytes%29_and_human.svg.png Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct Chimps and humans separated from our last common ancestor roughly six million years ago. Illustration The Nature Box, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/5d188fd8-88b7-4d41-bcae-2549d594421d/17.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct Prehistoric cooking fires, over centuries, fanned the flames of human imagination. 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Photo Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/d9dad405-5835-430e-b26f-d2f1a9a93b6f/25.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct - Make it stand out In southern England, human ancestors hunted megalocerus (giant deer) that stood roughly 6’7” at the shoulder and weighed more than half a ton. Reconstruction of extinct megalocerus at the Prehistoric Park in Tarascon, France. Photo Tylwyth Eldar, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/d1be5d3c-298b-4f04-824e-cb702cd40e54/parents.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct From left: My yogi-mathematician father and artist mother met in the mid-1960s through a shared love of music, in the sitting room of a boarding house in Toronto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/1691775810781-7TYEE31CTPRGUF70GZW1/cabin.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct - My birthplace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/1687542524086-0IYOEKIBZI3BEY55DUB2/Aria.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct - Goldberg Variations: Aria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/6661f327-4313-46b2-a64f-87a18bacd29d/12.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct - Make it stand out In Tanzania, the turnoff to the “Cradle of Humankind” — Olduvai Gorge — features six-foot-tall concrete skulls of the hominid species Paranthropus robustus and Homo habilis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/6352ba8f-8bb0-4f07-a845-6a0e0ee5c5f9/26.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct - Make it stand out Our human ancestors lost the laryngeal air sacs (inflatable extensions of the vocal tract) that allow chimpanzees to “hoot pant” and breathe at 10 to 15 times the normal rate. The loss of laryngeal air sacs allowed humans to vocalize with greater finesse. Photo courtesy Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/195d9804-f079-4fc3-8bf1-83e7b6e9e093/28.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct - Make it stand out In this cave, Hohle Fels, in Germany’s Swabian Alps, archeologists discovered flutes dating back more than 40,000 years. Photo Dr. Eugen Lehle, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/f7f634e1-7df5-4d94-9a6e-e55b7e9394b1/14.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct - Make it stand out Replica of the Laetoli footprints discovered in Tanzania in 1978 by Mary Leakey. Photo Momotarou2012, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/f49cc5e3-2bf1-475e-a9ed-3ebf65bce0be/Brain+on+Music.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct Left: Daniel Levitin’s book “This Is Your Brain on Music” (2006) became a perennial hit. Right: Levitin, a neuroscientist, author and musician, has performed with the likes of Bobby McFerrin, Rosanne Cash and Sting. Photo Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/0c450a73-7312-43df-aac0-8601d93d9120/1280px-Baked_cheesecake_with_raspberries_and_blueberries.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct Music may be a sweet treat for the ear, but dismissing it as nothing more than “auditory cheesecake” ignores its inherent role in human evolution. Photo zingyyellow, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/d291b91b-6492-4b50-a241-20f8f5f801d3/handaxes.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct - Make it stand out Left: Lower Paleolithic hand axe, roughly 1.2 million years old, taken from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania; currently in British Museum, photo public domain. Right: Bifacial symmetrical pointed hand axe circa 280,000 BCE; photo (cropped) via Portable Antiquities Scheme, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/bfabcd49-ba03-4c27-a5a0-083e6c18828e/22.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct - Make it stand out My mom, a widow in her late 20s, playing one of her clay flutes in Mexico. I was a toddler along for the ride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/3449220f-ed3c-46ae-9205-9b80dc1bf523/9.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct Based on EEG experiments, the brains of rhesus macaques do not detect a musical beat the way human newborn brains do. Photo Charles J. Sharp, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/4b27293e-3683-495e-abfd-79ef58d0064e/19.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct - Make it stand out Though I have no memory of this time, as a toddler, I was surrounded by jamming musicians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/c371091a-8e2f-4860-8954-9a5f8e734e24/21.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct The abandoned stable in Chiapas where my mom, her boyfriend and my sister and I slept. Photo Susan Feindel, all rights reserved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/16686be8-0758-4ca4-a383-af43fee3fb40/29.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct Ice-age flute made of vulture bone, discovered in Hohle Fels cave in Germany’s Swabian Alps and dated at more than 40,000 years old. Photo Hannes Wiedmann, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/77112017-4c09-4845-8370-7f5f89973ea4/23.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct Me in Mexico at nearly three years old, playing one of my mother’s flutes (it is shaped like me). I have no memory of playing this ocarina, or of the two musicians who inspired my mom to make flutes out of clay. Photo Susan Feindel, all rights reserved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/cc4e7cc4-d922-4d32-b299-0de4fba2820e/1.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct My ex-boyfriend’s Gretsch kit was similar but not as sparkly. Photo Drum Crew, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/86016f98-6562-423e-9f40-c47d3d0a38c0/thumbnail_IMG_9263.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct - Make it stand out I found this photo recently while emptying my mother’s house. Imagine my excitement — I had never seen it before! The image fits my earliest memory: women firing clay pots in the village of Amatenango del Valle. Photo Susan Feindel, all rights reserved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/434c1150-7821-43c8-8d80-d25b03bd2451/32.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 2: The Music Instinct Snapshots from my days as an extra on movie sets in mid-1990s Vancouver. I was a “background performer” on shows ranging from The X-Files to Happy Gilmor (starring Adam Sandler). https://adrianabarton.com/visual-guide/wired-for-music-the-visual-companion-chapter-2-groove-interrupted monthly 0.5 2024-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/e230dd60-dfc0-45fa-8805-585b4a769ae5/Muses.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted - Make it stand out The nine Muses of Greek mythology, painted by Venetian artist Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594). Image in U.S. public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/709b9ddd-4b38-4e53-9028-9a44e453e2a9/Billie_Eilish_at_Pukkelpop_%2848590443381%29_%28cropped%29.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted Billie Eilish at the 2019 Pukkelpop Music Festival. Photo Lars Crommelinck, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/0642977f-34a7-4a45-801e-5780be64fc6b/OnofrioVicaria.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted Il portale della chiesa di Sant'Onofrio alla Vicaria Photo Baku, Creative Commons. Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio a Capuana[edit] Sant'Onofrio a Capuana dates from 1578 and counts as its alumni Niccoló Jommelli, Giovanni Paisiello, Niccolò Piccinni, and Antonio Sacchini, four of the great names in the 18th century Neapolitan music. The Italian Baroque composer Cristofaro Caresana was a director from 1667 until 1690. The original building still stands, just across the street on the north side of the old Vicaria, the tribunale, the Naples Hall of Justice. Nacque nel maggio 1578 come istituto caritatevole per l'accoglienza di orfani e di bambini abbandonati, i quali venivano avviati fin da piccoli ai futuri impieghi artigianali. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/d1019650-eb8b-4f03-b1fd-cdccfb38c085/9780190076641.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted - Make it stand out Co-authored by Ethan Hein, Electronic Music School: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Musical Creativity aims to motivate kids to make music using digital tools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/8ce36815-691e-451b-a043-2054922d07db/Untitled+design+%288%29.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted - Make it stand out Painting from my mother Susan Feindel’s “Intensive Care” series documenting my brother’s open-heart surgery at the age of 5. The experimental procedure he received in England had never been done in North America. Artwork by Susan Feindel, cover of the Canadian Medical Association Journal in January 1985. All rights reserved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/f0c90aed-0ce0-47f7-a58d-fe3b3f1edc06/Classe_B%C3%A9riot_1895.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted - Make it stand out Outside the Conservatoire de Paris, the (all-male) class of composer Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot in 1894-1895. From left: Maurice Ravel, Camille Decreus, Gaston Lévy, Edouard Bernard, Fernand Lemaire, Charles de Bériot (seated at the piano), Henri Schidenhelm, Jules Robichon, Joachim Malats (seated at the piano), Marcel Chadeigne, Ricardo Viñes, Cortes, André Salomon, Ferdinand Motte-Lacroix. Photo Eugène Pirou (1841–1909), Bibliothèque nationale de France, public domain in U.S. and France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/83f9edfe-d23e-47b6-b63f-e7daa76a70d3/Simon_Cowell_in_December_2011.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted Simon Cowell, TV talent judge. Photo Alison Martin, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/110e577f-dec8-4a6a-9ee3-13a593c21384/trio.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted - Make it stand out Gregorian singing in the Netherlands. Photo Helena, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/b4419157-5225-439b-80cb-b9c801a1c820/Greeks.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted - Make it stand out A Muse with a harp and two others with lyres. Image from a Greek vase in the Munich Museum. Photo public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/bd3656b8-218a-4603-ba8f-3d2bfcc649f5/monks.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted - Make it stand out A trio of young women showed me their chops on a two-sided drum called the alfaia, played with thin mallets that made a heavy booming sound. Photo Adriana Barton, all rights reserved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/02a7bbe5-c63b-4c3a-81e3-20277606b521/thumbnail_IMG_3063.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted - Make it stand out Original members of Cascabulho, the band that inspired me to check out the music scene in Recife, Brazil. Photo Adriana Barton, all rights reserved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/cfb9df6b-93e3-4a2c-91c8-42cbc2ef8367/1280px-Sgt._Pepper%27s_50th_Anniversary_Billboard_in_London+%281%29.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted - Make it stand out The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's 50th anniversary billboard in London, England. As a small child, I loved leafing through the pages of this weird and wonderful album. Photo Kreepin Deth, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/2becd430-8605-458b-b050-75e44fb9b332/Untitled+design+%2814%29.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/57e3af50-9ecb-47b3-a437-434c302e3217/1600px-Gregoriaans1.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted Gregorian chant became the official music of the Roman Catholic Church for more than a thousand years. Note the mostly stepwise progression of the melody, and absence of rhythmic notation and harmony. Photo Wasily, public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/2842d9b7-5fd5-4f00-a762-ea71aa3e7e14/1599px-Rilievo_con_corteo_funebre%2C_20_ac-20_dc_ca.%2C_da_amiternum%2C_06_musici.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted - Make it stand out In pagan Rome, horn players pumped up the volume in chariot races, carnival trains, gladiator fights. Bas relief from ancient Rome at Museo nazionale d'Abruzzo. Photo Sailko, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/c7cbf828-0cb2-4fb0-86ff-58550967ec6c/16144480349_8b5dd233c0_o.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted The Devil’s trident inspired the musical term “tritone.” Photo Charles Rodstrom, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/75b6a035-8c81-4f30-a90b-5bc16d3c6e2d/The_Artist%27s_Way.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted - Make it stand out Cover of The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. In this insightful book on creativity, first published in 1992, Cameron coined the term “shadow artist” to describe blocked creatives. 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Map adapted from Wikimedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/4d77c9a5-4fad-41ee-ba1f-d0fc120bd45d/thumbnail_IMG_3172.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted - Make it stand out A recent scene from the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, the seaside event that introduced me to the band Cascabulho and led to a trip to Recife, Brazil. Photo Adriana Barton, all rights reserved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/116c2525-ad00-4ffa-bb3d-6b040ccc8df3/pxfuel.com+%281%29.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 3: Groove, Interrupted - Make it stand out Ever been stuck at a concert behind someone whose smartphone is blocking the show? 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Lynch, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/7e7745b3-a72f-4697-b73d-844d6ff0b441/1.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 4: Mood Music - Make it stand out Goosebumps, one of the physical pleasure responses elicited by music. Photo Ildar Sagdejev, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/f3829c05-16bf-4b6f-b2b6-69f595c3f26c/1280px-Dopamine-from-xtal-view-1-3D-bs-17.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 4: Mood Music Ball-and-stick model of the dopamine molecule, C8H11NO2, in the zwitterionic form found in the crystal structure determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and reported in J. Mol. Struct. (2013), 1051, 132-136 (CSD entry TIRZAX). Colour code:   Carbon, C: grey   Hydrogen, H: white   Nitrogen, N: blue   Oxygen, O: red Model manipulated in Avogadro 1.2 and image generated in CCDC Mercury 3.8.Date28 December 2020SourceOwn workAuthorBen Mills Image in public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/c0cdea7f-680e-4107-be20-74e88cbe8a8e/Van7.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 4: Mood Music - Make it stand out In my first two years at The Globe and Mail, I assigned and edited more than six hundred articles on visual arts, theatre, music and pop culture for a weekly arts and entertainment section in Vancouver, B.C. Photo Adriana Barton, all rights reserved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/e258d7cd-f51f-4c2e-a08d-3d196e5023d1/Achern-Illenau-10-Hauptgebaeude-2020-gje.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 4: Mood Music - Make it stand out The structures that housed the 19th century Illenau asylum — an early adopter of music as medicine for mental illness — still stand today. Photo Gerd Eichmann, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/08d15642-abf6-451c-bf28-f96ba6b26c36/Candy_colors.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 4: Mood Music Early in our evolution, physical pleasures including sweet foods and sex helped keep us alive. But the human brain developed, we learned to find pleasure in activities that required higher-level thinking, such as basking in Brahms. Neuroscientists refer to hits of bliss from art or music as “aesthetic” or “cognitive rewards.” Photo Stefano Mortellaro, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/5dde6f22-b884-49c3-88a3-8c92b2d5eb06/Anxiety.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 4: Mood Music - Make it stand out Artwork entitled “Anxiety” by the artist Bhargov Buragohain, Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/bed4cb90-82b2-467e-b096-a52ec08ee1a3/thumbnail_IMG_3906.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 4: Mood Music - Make it stand out Dr. Bessel van der Kolk’s insightful book emphasizes treatments that address the insidious effects of trauma beneath conscious awareness. 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DateUnknown dateSourcehttps://www.canceractive.com/article/penny-brohn-uk-formerly-the-bristol-cancer-help-centreAuthorUnknown author Creative Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/f6c16a92-b5d9-42ce-ad1f-4cb4d0cb4517/51q8AbtxaoL._AC_.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 4: Mood Music - Make it stand out Jacqueline du Pré wowed the world in 1962 with her gut-wrenching interpretation of Sr. Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor. When multiple sclerosis forced her to stop performing at age 28, this haunting concerto became the anthem of her tormented life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/1b5cb035-69df-44b9-ba1c-dfdd9ceeae6b/Oliversacks.jpg Visual Guide - Wired for Music: The Visual Companion | Chapter 4: Mood Music The late neurologist Oliver Sacks had deep appreciation for music and wrote extensively about its effects. 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Guest appearance (in red) on CTV’s national talk show “The Social.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/82bc1242-edd8-482b-b369-6ee42f7eb247/boston_IMG_1209.jpg In the news - Make it stand out Adapted excerpt from Wired for Music published on the cover of The Boston Globe’s Ideas section. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/7b5d5014-2df0-45d2-b6ca-385d44d3d469/thumbnail_91EC57ED-B170-4AC9-9AD5-46C8A3E0B851.jpg In the news - Make it stand out Wired for Music shortlisted for Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Awards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/9214ee0c-371e-4f69-94b7-f4a3a0ef7269/thumbnail_IMG_0520.jpg In the news - Make it stand out Long-form review of Wired for Music in BC Bookworld. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/9be36626-d251-4409-a3d0-7356525ddab3/Tyee.png In the news - Make it stand out Long-form review of Wired for Music in The Tyee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/911a11f5-f5e6-4192-bd6b-aed9fa9930ad/Globe.jpg In the news - Make it stand out Feature interview on Wired for Music in Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/f7d97b7d-5b76-4bd9-b1be-784275648462/thumbnail_IMG_0169.jpg In the news - Make it stand out Guest appearance (right) on Global News with Emily Lazatin (left). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b645ac9b1059899dec07ee0/69da2d96-b5fd-4eba-bfcf-25e0315112f5/Untitled+design+%2817%29.jpg In the news - Make it stand out Wired for Music recommended in The Guardian by science writer David Robson. https://adrianabarton.com/visual-companion daily 0.75 2023-10-23