A Thought on Music and Science

I recently picked up a book called This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin. It is basically about the studies of a music producer turned neuroscientist but even that simple description doesn't do it justice. The point here is after reading just the introduction it made me look at several things differently. It had compared an artist to a scientist. How an artists studio and a scientists lab are very similar. Even the way the two look at the world and create. After reading just that little bit it all made sense as to why I myself am such a fan of science. Then I began to look at my musician friends and the way the approached things as well as their own personal interests. Do you know what I found? This group of misunderstood vagabonds, drunks, emotional wrecks, unstable creatives were in fact fascinated with science as well. They all have their own experiments. Their own theories as to how they can create certain things, elements, sounds to further their own research to find a new truth in the human condition.