Re: To JEE - Music Mind & Brain Syllabus

Syllabus =ttached here for you - today is Day 1 of the new academic year here at =CLA. Hope you find it interesting - heartfelt thanks for making all =his possible over the years. I hope the back is doing better and =assing far beyond that red line near my old Cornell dorm room - please =et me know how you're doing and if there's anything I can do to help =ith that.

Yours,

Mark

Mark Jude Tramo, MD PhD Dept of Integrative Biology & Physiology, UCLA School of =etters & Science

Dept of Neurology, =avid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Dept of =usicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Director, The Institute for Music & =rain Science Co-Director, University of California =ulti-Campus Music Research Initiative (UC MERCI) http://www.BrainMusic.org http://merci.ucsd.edu/

id like to fund Reverse engineering of =usic. . does its production =ive one a window on the creative mechanism.. are =ythms a reflection off underyiing operatin system. are they =enetic.? are complex harmonies an indicator of internal =omplexity etc.

Jeffrey: Sounds terrific (pardon pun), potentially important; =loser To Truth would love to support as you develop (TV and web) - as =ou know, we have an on-point overview episode planned in "Radical=Breakthrough" series - "Can Music Probe =entality?"

Mark: It has been —15 years since we did Closer To Truth =ogether (with Bob Freeman and Jeanne Bamberger) - https://www.closertotruth.com/roundtables/why-music-so-signific=nt. We already have you on our priority list for the =usic/Mentality episode above - a CTT associate producer will contact =ou during preproduction. We can plan more, go really =n-depth.

Looking forward and best regards,

Robert