Blog: Setting The Woods On Fire

I just heard a really interesting podcast (from 2006) about how the brain processes music. Towards the end there is a story about how the first public performance of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring ended in a bloody riot. The podcast is from the show Radiolab , which is put out by WNYC in New York. Here's a description of the show from the Radiolab site: What is music? How does it work? Why does it move us? Why are some people better at it than others? In [...]