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Cadence is a podcast about music: how it affects your brain, your life, and the community in which you live. Join our host, cognitive neuroscientist and classically trained opera singer Indr...

In a special series within season 4, Indre speaks with Connie Tomaino, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neur...

Ethan Castro is back to talk about his experience with Tourette Syndrome and how it has shaped his path as a musician. We also hear from wor...

In a special series within season 4, Indre speaks with Connie Tomaino, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neur...

Dr. Ethan Castro and Dame Evelyn Glennie, both hearing impaired percussionists, talk through building successful careers as performers and c...

In a special series within season 4, Indre speaks with Connie Tomaino, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neur...

There are many neurodiverse musicians working professionally in the classical music world, but are orchestras and universities doing enough...

In a special series within season 4, Indre speaks with Connie Tomaino, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neur...

This episode, composer and musician Jerome Ellis tells the story of how his stutter has informed his journey as an artist, and how he explor...

S03 Episode 07: Music and Prisons, Part 2 by Indre Viskontas

S03 Episode 06: Music and Prisons, Part 1 by Indre Viskontas

S03 Episode 05: How Music Affects Animals by Indre Viskontas

S03 Episode 04: Music During the Holidays by Indre Viskontas

S03 Episode 03: Why Queer Music Matters by Indre Viskontas

S03 Episode 02: Lullabies and Feelings by Indre Viskontas

S03 Episode 01: The Music of Politics by Indre Viskontas

In this final episode of season 2, we look at the dramatic effects music can have on patients with dementia—in some cases, it can bring back...

Watching someone suffer through a serious illness is heartbreaking—especially if it’s a child, and even more if it affects their ability to...

In this episode, we meet Tony Deblois, an individual with autism who is also blind. Tony can play 23 instruments, has toured all over the wo...

This episode was partly taped live during Indre’s faculty artist recital at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. It explores how music c...

In this episode we meet Terry. After a devastating car accident he was left with profound damage to his brain’s left hemisphere, significant...

In this episode, we meet Sandra C., a guest at a sanctuary called Rosie's Place for poor and homeless women in Boston. At Rosie's Place, gue...

In this episode, we tell the story of a dance class designed for people who are losing the ability to move voluntarily. Mike Gabel, who was...

This season, we’re going to focus on music as medicine—telling the stories of people whose lives have been immeasurably improved with music....

As we finish up season one, we look back to one of the most famous and strange musical illusions: speech turning into song through repetitio...

It takes years to train your ears - but not necessarily a music degree. Auditory neuroscientist Nina Kraus tells us how musicians listen and...

In this episode we continue our exploration of how musicians tell time and how anyone embodies pulse. We talk to Dean Buonomano, a neuroscie...

How do our brains tell where the pulse is in music? Can we improve our sense of rhythm or is it something we're just born with? In this epis...

You often hear people say that music is good for your brain because it's the only activity that uses all of it. That's not true. And the tru...

Is there music that is considered universally great? Why do some composers from 18th century European countries still sell out concert halls...

We take a step back from neuroscience and psychology to listen to what artists have to say about what music is for.

Last episode we met George Shin, who not too long ago received a cochlear implant and started to take piano lessons as part of a study at th...

This week we attempt to find out if there are any universals in music, how the same sounds can go from speech to song, and how our auditory...

What is music? How would you define it? Does it defy definition? In this episode we try to get answers to those questions from from a pionee...