Mickey Hart's Brain on Music
https://youtu.be/zZFUhuxj9ts
the book
Drumming at the Edge of Magic
tags: (Afro-Caribbean Religions, Anthropology, Drumming, Eastern Religions/Philosophy, History, Music, Mythology, Native American cultures, Paleopagan Cultures, Ritual Tools, Shamanism, Sociology) -reveiw
- This isn’t just a story about the history of the drum..... We see where this instrument captivated Hart from an early age, and wonder at the amazing creations that resulted. We explore the altered states of consciousness the drum evokes, with Joseph Campbell, Alla Rakha, and the Siberian shamans as our guides. From blues and jazz to African talking drums and the bullroarers found worldwide, we are introduced to percussionists of all stripes, spots and plaids.
- Between Hart and Stevens, the writing is phenomenal.... Anyone who drums, dances, or otherwise is involved with music; anyone who works with altered states of consciousness, whether in shamanic practice or otherwise; anyone who wants to see what makes a rock and roll drummer tick; and anyone who wants a damned good story that’s all true, needs to read this book.
- Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart is working with neuroscientist
Dr. Adam Gazzaley to understand how music affects the brain. The project aims
to use the power of NVIDIA GPUs to analyze brain activity in real time.
THE music
- In an interview in 2011, Hart said, "Well, when I wrote that book I was looking for the origins of percussion. So by writing that book I kept going back, you know? To the Mongols of the 11th century. Then I went back to the caves, and then the Neolithic, then the Paleolithic, and then when I reached the point where drums first started to appear, I thought, well, okay, where did that come from? And, it led me back to the beginning of time and space. The beginning of the universe. The Big Bang."
ARTIST
He's a percussionist who's always had a massive curiosity about sounds and the way people make them. Hart's passion for the beat was first fostered in his childhood home and coalesced on his album "Planet Drum."
FOLLOW UP:
- Drummer Mickey
Hart recalls 30 years of 'world music'
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-02-27/drummer-mickey-hart-recalls-30-years-world-music
- The show features Hart performing with his Pythagorean Monochord instrument, also known as “The Beam,”
- BONUS_ maths and BACH: what's so good about Bach?
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