The Bach Project
Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday last month, inspired Science Cheerleader contributor Stephen Zachary to examine yet another example of how science and art coexist so beautifully.
Here’s Stephen’s report:
Filmmaker Michael Lawrence’s documentary The Bach Project, is currently in post-production. Though we tend to think that the arts and science occupy separate realms, Lawrence went to a researcher and a mathematician for insights into Bach’s ingenuity and the structure of his music. In the clip above, Dr. Charles Limb explains some of his research into the neural basis of musical improvisation and demonstrates how he goes about scanning musicians at work in an fMRI machine. (more…)
