Music production

This article will focus on the different ways of producing music and the involved cognitive processes.

Generating Music

• sound as propagating pressure waves
• sound generation: strings, membranes, mechanical basics
• principles of instrument function
• speech and singing, larynx

Cognitive processes

• introduction to motor areas

Studies

• comparison of speech, humming and singing
• comparison of instrument play and dancing

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