Orit Wolf

Dec 10, 2024 | cacm.acm.org | Orit Wolf |Orit Hazzan |Logan Kugler |Sam Greengard

“I would argue that science is actually a type of art. To do science, you have to be creative, you have to blend different ideas, you have to communicate those ideas by creating something. In many ways that’s what artists do.”—Callie Chappell, Stanford University in Nature Careers Podcasts with Julie Gould, December 8th, 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03394-8Music, science, and engineering are seemingly distant disciplines that stand apart as separate discrete, divergent entities.

Mar 15, 2024 | cacm.acm.org | Orit Hazzan |Alex Vakulov |R. Colin Johnson |Orit Wolf

Music and science and engineering are seemingly distant disciplines that stand apart as two separate, diverging entities. In recent years, however, a substantial amount of collaborative research has been conducted on aspects of music listening and instrument playing and their effects on the brain. Music is, in fact, a medium of abstract science that stimulates our emotions, expands our horizons, and develops strong motoric, spatial, and communicative skills.