It’s Music Therapy time!

It is Thursday, after all. Last week? Justin Timberlake and Gwen Stefani. Next week: who knows? This week something that’s (as always) completely different. Start with maybe twenty drones tricked out with synchronized lights. Link those lights to a bank of Shaminsens, traditional Japanese guitars, and hit play with Mt. Fuji as the backdrop. It all comes together rather nicely, …

This week’s Music Therapy

Music is more than sound. Frequently it is as much visual as it is aural, and this week’s Music Therapy, a singular performance of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, is Exhibit #1. I’m not sure you’ll ever see a more creative use of light and music.

Church is in session!

Remember this brief video of a naturalist enthusing over the “sophisticated” tool use of chimpanzees? We posted it back in mid-April. It’s about four minutes long. Take note at about the 1:25 mark of what you’re watching, and that it’s described as “remarkably sophisticated.” Now that you’ve seen the creative, complex, intuitive, inventive, and “remarkably sophisticated” way chimps use rocks …