Video Unlocking music with neuroscience | Ardon Shorr | TEDxCMU 2012

Ardon Shorr graduated from Oberlin College majoring in neuroscience and music theory, then taught fencing in Manhattan. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in biology at Carnegie Mellon with a research fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

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Thank you to Shawn Roggenkamp for photography, James Ranson for help with the talk, Dave Cummings for video, and the entire TEDxCMU team.

You can find Variations Audio Timeliner online for free:
http://variations.sourceforge.net/vat/

Songs:

OC Times: "Grow Old With You"
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/grow-old-with-you/id263226331?i=263226548

They also have a great performance on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3LTetvN2bo

Schubert: Zwölf Grazer Walzer D924

Foster the People: "Pumped up Kicks"
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pumped-up-kicks/id435761204?i=435761212

The Beatles: "Oh! Darling"
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/oh!-darling/id401186200?i=401186505

Bob Marley & the Wailers: "Buffalo Soldier"
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/buffalo-soldier/id517438246?i=517438251

The Cure: "Friday I'm In Love"
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/friday-im-in-love/id269730983?i=269733052

Ben Folds: "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces"
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/one-angry-dwarf-200-solemn/id193602597?i=193602630

Mahler: Symphonies No. 1, 3, 4
and the lied "Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz."

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