What Music Is | Documentary

What Music Is brings together astronomy, neuroscience and more into a new theory of music’s role in our specie

Listening as the More-Than-Human

Deep Listening invites us into this wider field. It asks us to hear not as a human interpreting nature, but as nature listening to itself.

Particle and Wave Listening

From a still point, perception unfolds—revealing not only what we hear, but how we know the world itself.

Music and the Origins of Language

Did early humans sing before they could talk? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice discover how music helps us recall memories, the singing Neanderthal theory. The default mode network, and how music can be used as medicine with neuroscientist and bestselling author, Daniel Levitin.