0:00 The coffee question...3:47 Quick biographical sketch / Seeing Miroslav Tadic4:50 CalArts and our dude Michael Kudirka (See Episode #4)6:22 "Quote-Unquote" "normal" songwriting8:07 Teaching kids, teaching neuroscience8:45 Beautiful Michigan and Mike again9:54 Finding a love of math and the brain (Victoria Booth and Michal Zochowski)11:45 Going into computational neuroscience12:07 Mike vs Mice12:17 Me analyzing Janet Jackson down to the millisecond12:47 Analytical insights on what makes a good album13:33 Unified whole without uniformity from song to song16:03 The new and novel / the adult addiction to competency17:56 Favorite guitarists?19:35 Tuning tedium on guitar / What does a day of MicroTone work look like?21:00 Creating algorithms for fret placement / Scott's tuning app25:00 2 cents on the octaves 1200 cents27:00 On scooching28:21 I foolishly say "ugly prime number"29:00 Does something like 13-TET or 23-TET screw all this up? Euler tuning?32:00 Math as rediscovering new things about things you've known about for a long time33:00 How might a musician find their way into math? / Learning styles34:57 "Another little rant..."38:30 Autocorrelation and tuning / Periodicity45:00 Boston University lab51:00 Audition vs Vision systems54:00 Jeff Hawkins book57:00 Jennifer Aniston neurons61:00 Bayesian Brain, Friston, Free Energy...63:00 Wacky VR ideas...66:00 Neil Harbisson68:00 Predictive coding73:00 Sonification?76:00 Experiment design86:00 MicroTone Guitar logo