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What Do You Visualize When You Listen to Music?

Are we all imagining the same thing when we listen to music, or are our experiences hopelessly subjective? In other words, is music a truly universal language? To investigate those questions, an international team of researchers (including a classical pianist, a rock drummer, and a concert bassist) asked hundreds of people what stories they imagined when ...

Troy Oakes

Illustration of a boy wearing a cowboy hat playing a guitar.

The Guqin: The Instrument of the Sages

The guqin, or qin, is a seven-stringed classical musical instrument that is a relative of the zither family and has a history in China of about 5,000 years. Scholars and sages considered the qin as the singular instrument that captures the essence of traditional Chinese culture. The qin, along with calligraphy, chess, and painting, were ...

Nspirement Staff

A woman playing a guqin.