teja gets creative

Mind-mapping music science

Or introducing colours to the world of music

Recently, while sitting on the couch, I started thinking about the many branches that the scientific study of music appearsĀ to encompass. Everybody in the field(s) seems to implicitly understand the different aspects, but no one writes about them. This was, I realized, one of the reasons why I held so much wonder at the beginning, when I started discovering the many sides of the music science equation. That day, I grabbed my sketchbook* and outlined the following mind map (to which I later added colours, because my life needs a splash of rainbow). Continue reading…