Free Jazz is not monolithic. Some free jazz sounds to me like 1950’s movie music and is very slow moving (early Bill Dixon) while other free music is invigorating (later John Coltrane). Some free jazz may be dissonant and yet, Ornette Coleman’s music has a great sense of melody - and jazz history. read more
Volunteers listened to noises inside the scanner and then rated them from the most unpleasant—the sound of a knife on a bottle — to the most pleasing — babbling water. Researchers were then able to study the brain response to each type of sound. read more