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Face the Music

Face the Music

By Tim on August 3, 2012

  My Maisonneuve magazine story about singing, tone deafness and how we hear music is now online. Includes some science, some culture and lots of personal humiliation.

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The opening spread for "Face the Music"

Face the Music: My most humiliating story

By Tim on April 6, 2012

    I have an embarrassing secret: I am tone deaf. I don’t just mean that I am a terrible singer who can’t carry a tune, I mean clinically tone deaf. Or amusic, as the scientists say. I’ve been tested. Many times. But I also love music. How is it possible for someone who is [...]

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