It's Monday, February 27th, 2017, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indravis Gantus.

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Andrei, it's great to hear you, but I've heard you somewhere else this week.

Congratulations on the launch of your new podcast.

Oh, thank you.

Yes, I'm really excited about it.

It's called Cadence, and the whole idea is to explore what music can tell us about the mind.

It's essentially my pet project, because of course it's my two interests, the brain and

music coming together. It's, in some ways, much more produced than this podcast, because there's

a lot of questions that I have and I wanted to answer them within, you know, one season,

sort of more like some of the other podcasts out there. So this is a limited run. You're not

leaving us here at Inquiring Minds. I'm not leaving you. No So this is a limited run. You're not leaving us here

at Inquiring Minds. I'm not leaving you. No, it's a limited run. Right now, I've planned for 10

episodes that they're each under 30 minutes. So that's the plan. They'll be released on Wednesdays

every two weeks. So we just released the first one. The second one is coming out very soon.

And we have the season planned.

And then we'll see where it goes after that. Some of your favorite researchers around music and the brain appear in episode one, Diana Deutsch, who you often talk about. And Charles Lim, who works at

my university. Yeah, he's an ear surgeon, and he has two ways in which

he's participating in the podcast. One is as a person who restores hearing, people who are

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