3/16/11
Yesterday in class we did a creative group activity to get our brains pumping. I was partnered with the lovely safe sack group! The activity was that we had to create a story and each member would add the next sentence until the page was filled. It was quite amazing how our story went from George Harrison to then to Charlie Sheen and then to Miss Kathleen Schreck. Plus it was about George Harrison trying to find the magic ketchup bottle and currently Kathleen Schreck was the owner. Wow! Do we have some come creative brains in the Safe Sack group!
3/17/11
Today in class we watched this Ted Blog. Charles Limb is testing creativity in a very unique way. He is testing it through an fMRI scanner and through jazz improvisation. He has a jazz artist come in and memorize a short jazz piece of music for piano. Then he would make them play it in the fMRI scanner to measure their brain activity. Limb would then have them improvise on the jazz combo and measure the differences on their brain activity. The brain shows a lot more activity on the improvised piece of music compared to the memorized piece. Charles Limb also did a similar test but with rap. Once again he would have a rapper come in and memorize a piece of music. Into the scanner they went and the brain activity was measured. The rapper would then free style the rap. Brain activity was more active on the improvisation. I found it very experiment interesting because am very passionate about music! I also really enjoy jazz music. It’s amazing how people improvise music off the top of their head. That’s something that takes a whole lot of training and hard work. The only negative thing about this experiment was he has only tested two styles of music. Plus he has only tested one type of instrument for jazz. I shared this with a few of my music major friends and they enjoyed it as well!
On Creativity – “You need to have a weird association with the frontal lobe of your brain.” –Charles Limb
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