Here’s One I Prepared Earlier
- Synopsis
- Georgina Ferry explores musical memory and how musicians remember the words, scores and stage directions for live performances. Musicians and researchers talk about how the brain performs this amazing feat. Careful measurement of electrical activity in the brain shows how performers can condense the music to manageable proportions, and the role of muscular memory in reducing the load further is discussed.
But not all humans are the same. Autistic musicians often exhibit phenomenal capacity for memorising performance, and according to recent research may use very different mental techniques to reproduce music. Other research explores the way we recall long sequences of quick notes, with memory lapses here often being simply ‘the right notes at the wrong time.' - Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of release
- 2005
- Year of production
- 2004
- Notes
- Broadcast weekly on Radio 4 from 24/3/2004
- Subjects
- Music; Psychology
- Keywords
- memory; musicians; music - performances
Online availability
- URI
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/heresone.shtml
- Price
- free
- Delivery
- Streamed
Production Company
- Name
BBC Radio 4
- Web
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 External site opens in new window
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