What We Talk About When We Talk About Music As Medicine — SYNC PROJECT
The Music programs at Carleton provide a solid grounding in the study and performance of various instruments and genres of music. In contrast, some have suggested that the aggressiveness and violence of much of modern popular rock music seems to have had a negative and sinister influence on a younger generation, recalling the fears of the ancient Greeks that certain musical modes would have a harmful social effect.
With respect to the piece on the computer which composes music, isn’t the computer doing the same thing that most composers do. That is, compose music by rearranging notes and patterns (either …