Re: To JEE - Music Mind & Brain Syllabus

Hi Jeffrey -

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

Yours,
Mark

Mark Jude Tramo, MD PhD Dept of Integrative Biology & Physiology, UCLA School of Letters & Science Dept of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Dept of Musicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

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

id like to fund Reverse engineering of music. . does its production give one a window on the creative mechanism. . are rythms a reflection off underyiing operatin system. are they genetic.? are complex harmonies an indicator of internal complexity etc.

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

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

Looking forward and best regards,

Robert

these are all boring. I think music might provide insight into the underlying machine making it. not the effects of music on brains but can music be a microscope into its software?