Superconsciousness Magazine delved into the Neurological Effects of Music on the Brain along with Dr. Oliver Sacks. Here’s what they had to say:
- Music can help recover damaged brain function by activating parts of the brain that are nearby.
- Music demands focus… it is the innate organization of music which is the great bastion against chaos.
- There is not one musical part of the brain. In fact, there’s sort of a dozen different parts of the brain which respond to pitch, rhythm, timbre, melodic contour…
- Ones [brain] does not listen to music passively… one sort of decodes it as one listens.
- We know now that the brain is continually shaping itself, being reshaped. There seems to be no end to the plasticity of the brain.
- I think this can happen with many people that music can somehow bring back the feeling of life when nothing else can.
- There is a primal power of music that not only synchronizes everything in the nervous system, but also synchronizes people together.
There needs to be real engagement with music, and a lot of it….
Visually, a neurologist cannot identify the brain of a mathematician or an artist, but can distinguish the brain of a musician.
Music should be part of education very very early….
All Quotes are taken from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain; by Oliver Sacks
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As the great JS Bach one stated, “The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”