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Arthur C. Jaschke - Mind the Music

On Improvisation, Music and the Brain

MUSIC | PSYCHOLOGY

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Music has a way of minding our brains, and Mind the Music explores the effects that it has on our cognition, emotion, and behaviour. As well as into the fabric of our culture, music is woven into the fabric of our humanity —but where does it come from, and how does it help us to learn?

But as technology takes over what were once human tasks, there is a temptation and even tendency to enjoy our creature comforts while neglecting our natural faculties. So how do we re-learn the ability to improvise, to help us find our place in the nexus of human and machine?

Mind the Music is a reminder that it is important to keep your brain active, and an argument for the glory of intuitive choices. It dares you to improvise and dance to the music of the mind.

Artur Jaschke studied Double-Bass and Drums at Dartington College of Arts in the UK. He holds a PhD in clinical Neuropsychology with the specialisation clinical Neuromusicology from the VU University Amsterdam. Currently he is Reader (Lector) Music-based Therapies and Interventions and in Ecologies of clinical Neuromusicology: creative AI, Music Sciences and Health Care Applications at the department of Music Therapy at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Enschede the Netherlands as well as clinical Research Fellow cognitive neuroscience of music at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the University Medical Center Groningen and the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research (UK).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Author’s Note
Prelude

PART I: WHAT IS IMPROVISATION? (AND WHAT IS MUSIC?)
1 A brief history of the evolution of music
2 The hmmmm in music
3 From molecules to streaming services
4 To create something out of thin air
5 Researching improvisation
6 Art-based or clinical research: two sides of the same coin?
7 Music and the brain
8 Socio-cultural context
9 Music as a multisensory stimulus
10 Music as waves and frequencies
11 Music as organised sound
12 Improvisation: tradition versus innovation
13 In search of your own voice
14 Teaching to learn and learning to teach
15 Framed freedom
16 Improvisation as dialogue

PART II: MUSIC, IMPROVISATION AND THE BRAIN
Investigating the Brain
1 Embodied cognition
2 Music and the inner ear
3 The thalamus and the brain
4 A brief look at emotions
5 The cognition behind the music
6 Executive functions and the brain
7 Neural plasticity
8 Cognitive economy
9 Hierarchical organisation
10 Back to improvisation
11 The beauty and simplicity of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
12 Improvisation comes with responsibility

PART III: THE SECRET OF IMPROVISATION
1 Entropy
2 Active and passive listening
3 A new way of listening
4 The improvising listener
5 Freedom to choose freedom
6 The art of improvisation

PART IV: IMPROVISE THIS!
1 HumanE
2 Deep learning and the brain
3 Machines do experience music but we just do not know how to measure it
4 Music and the metaverse
5 Non-fungible tokens: empowering music

PART V: BEYOND MUSIC, IMPROVISATION AND THE BRAIN
1 Music-based therapies and interventions
2 Digital society
3 Music, technological development and clinical application
4 Improvisation at the heart of music-based therapies and interventions
5 A glimpse into the future

Coda
Endnotes
References
Discography
About the author – about the publishers

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