BECOMING THE BEAT
Exploring the Intersection of Music, Movement, and the Self in Motion
A mix of empirical analysis and personal anecdotes to lay out endless connections between running, music, and aesthetic engagement.
Music and Running
Thesis
By navigating through the top bar of links you will find the subsequent order of information.
Empirical Analysis: sets a psychological and anthropological foundation for the human response to music through the scientific lens of Daniel J. Levitin and Aniruddh D. Patel.
It concludes by comparing Levitin's "I Heard There Was a Secret Cord" and Nanay's "Aesthetics" on distraction vs attention.
Playlist Data: compares generalized playlists formulated by Apple Music and Spotify, to playlists made by individuals to see what ultimately comes down to a question of identity.
Experience: displays several case studies that provide obscure anecdotes as discussed in class.
Altogether this format is interactive by dividing ideas rather than acting as if they could all come together for a simple argument.
Works Cited
Kania, Andrew. “The Philosophy of Music.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2023, pp.5.1.
Patel, Aniruddh D. Patel. Music, Language, and the Brain. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Nanay, Bence Nanay. Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2019.
Levitin, Daniel J. Levitin. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine. W. W. Norton & Company, 2024.
Levitin, Daniel J. Levitin, and Anna K. Tirovolas. “Current Advances in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009.
Music and Running Post Production
This product captures the aesthetic of working out on the track by lining up the points of success with resolved moments in the music.
Cinematography
Track
- Filmed and edited by Olivia Hughes; a beloved teammate majoring in Visual Arts.