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Media Round-up #3

Media Round-up #3

By Tim on December 30, 2016

Bad Singer is still popping up in the media so here’s another round-up as 2016 comes to a close. Year-end Lists “A music fan who can’t carry a tune to save his life, Falconer digs into the science of singing, offering himself up as a guinea pig along the way. He might be a terrible […]

Posted in Bad Singer, books, music | Tagged amusia, bad singer, books, how we hear music, music, music and the brain, music science, tone deafness

The terroir of sound

The terroir of sound

By Tim on April 16, 2016

The terroir of sound Timbre — the terroir of sound — is crucial to how we hear music. But we don’t talk about it much because, unlike pitch, it has so far proven to be immune to measurement. The fine folks at Hazlitt, the excellent digital publication, have posted a Bad Singer excerpt that explains timbre’s role in music.

Posted in Bad Singer, music | Tagged bad singer, how we hear music, music, music cognition, music science, terroir of sound, timbre

Why I won’t sing at my book launch

Why I won’t sing at my book launch

By Tim on April 13, 2016

Why I won’t sing at my book launch Yes, my new book is called Bad Singer. No, I won’t sing at the launch party. That’s because I am part of just 2.5 percent of the population that suffers from amusia, the technical term for tone deafness. Amusia is a brain disorder similar to dyslexia. And […]

Posted in Bad Singer, books, music | Tagged amusia, bad singer, book launch, books, house of anansi, how we hear music, music and the brain, singing, tone deafness

The music I loved in 2015

The music I loved in 2015

By Tim on January 11, 2016

The music I loved in 2015 I spent 2015 finishing up a book called Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music. So while I thought a lot about how we listen to music, I didn’t have as much free time to actually listen to it as I usually do. Sure, I […]

Posted in Bad Singer, music | Tagged Courtney Barnett, how we hear music, music, Wilco

The Globe and Mail names Bad Singer to most anticipated books list

By Tim on January 10, 2016

The Globe and Mail names Bad Singer to “most anticipated books” list

Posted in Bad Singer, books, music, writing | Tagged amusia, bad singer, how we hear music, music, music and the brain, music science, singing, tone deafness

Bad Singer cover

Bad Singer cover

By Tim on January 10, 2016

My next book, Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music, will be out May 14, 2016. Here’s the cover.

Posted in Bad Singer, books, music, writing | Tagged amusia, bad singer, how we hear music, music, music and the brain, music science, science of music, tone deafness

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