The Hidden Science of Music, with Eric Whitacre

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🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Did you know there’s hidden science in music? Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Grammy-award winning composer Eric Whitacre, co-host Chuck Nice, neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD, and Eugenia Cheng, mathematician and concert pianist, to investigate.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk. I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:21.0	I serve as the director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.
0:27.0	And today's topic, the Hidden Science and Math in Music.
0:33.0	The music of the spheres. You got to love it.
0:36.0	And we're going to feature an interview with composer Eric Whitaker.
0:41.0	More on that in just a moment. But let me introduce my co-host Chuck, Chuck Nice.
0:46.0	Hey, hey, hey, hey, Neil, how are you?
0:48.0	Good. Always good to have you, Chuck. Just always good to be.
0:51.0	You're a comedic man about town.
0:54.0	And we're going to also bring in for this because it's the science of music affects us emotionally.
1:01.0	We can't do that without sort of bringing in our emotional case.
1:07.0	First and second.
1:10.0	When we got a checkup on emotions, definitely Heather Berlin. Heather, welcome back to Star Talk.
1:15.0	I should be your emotional case.
1:18.0	I should be here.
1:20.0	I mean, everything neuro for us.
1:23.0	Yeah, exactly. So for you, it's a compliment to be the emotional case.
1:26.0	Or even as a professor of psychiatry, maybe the head case.
1:32.0	The head case.
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