Professor Scott Foglesong is the Chair of Musicianship and Music Theory at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, an august institution which I was privileged to visit about eighteen months ago on my last visit to the west coast of the US. Scott is a big fan of Sibelius, and says: I jumped ship from […]
New research suggests that musicians do (to quote a grammatically awkward advertising campaign) “think different” to normal folks. According to this article at VUCast from Vanderbilt University: …professionally trained musicians more effectively use a creative technique called divergent thinking, and also use both the left and the right sides of their frontal cortex more heavily […]
About a year ago I was approached by Dr. Steve Flowers from CENTRIM, the Centre for Research in Innovation Management at the University of Brighton. Steve runs some very interesting research about the relationship between the companies who make products and the users who use them in innovative ways. From the research abstract: We see […]