Concrete Playground

Music, according to recent studies conducted by David Teie, a cellist from the National Symphony Orchestra, and Charles Snowdon, a professor of psychology from the University of Wisconsin, is species-specific. While such a theory seems a little self-evident and obvious, its ramifications become audible when we consider our taste in music is predicated on our biology and early existence in the womb. Is there a correlation between that heavy bass line of your favorite song and the repetitive beat of our mother’s heart? Can that high pitched swirl of the composition correlate to the bioelectric pulses speeding through the body? If you would like to test out such a theory (and possibly say goodbye to the human family) the Red Rattler will be hoisting An Afternoon of Difficult Music, that will most likely trouble aspects of our taste and the customs of our ears.