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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

Face the Music

Face the Music

By Tim on August 3, 2012

Face the Music 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.

Posted in music | Tagged amusia, music, music and the brain, science of music, singing, tone deafness

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