“I think there’s a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.” - [...]
Archive for July 31st, 2006
Pages
- About Kourosh
- Contact - Licensing, Commissions
- Meditation Music Samples
- Music Catalog
- Music Samples
- On Mind, Music, and Technology
Categories
Blogroll
- American Psychiatric Association
- Artist: Josina Burgess
- Artist: Tihomir Celanovic
- Boy on a Stick and Slither
- Bree Birke
- Cleversley
- DJ: Nexeus Fatale
- Games, Learning, and Society
- Institute for Psychoanalysis
- Method in Mind
- Musician: JeanChristophe Chevalier
- Musician: Juliana Gabriel
- Musician: Slim Warrior
- New Leaf Design
- Not Possible IRL
- PickSL
- Podcomplex Music Technology
- Second Life
- Sister Cities in SL
- Siterma
- SL Art Magazine
- The Flowfield Unity
- The SixtyOne
- The Wandering Endorphin
Writings
- A Lever to Move the Mind
- A Plight of Autistic Adolescents
- A Reluctance Towards Focus
- A Response to ‘The Lost Impact of Modern Music’
- An Interface of Health and Technology
- Aphex Twin and the Art of Simplicity
- Children’s Exposure to Technology
- Communication, Autism, and the Internet
- Compression and the Artist’s Message
- Improvisation as Self-Analysis
- Interface Dissolution
- Medication and its Meanings
- Meditation and Free Association
- Meditation, Fear, and Creativity
- Meditation, Mind, and Brain
- Mental Health Resources in Second Life
- Music In-World and In-Game
- Naming Pieces of Music
- On Being More Childish
- Our Branching Society
- Practicing Music - Silence is Golden
- Quantum Existence in Abstractia
- Re-Mission - Gaming Towards Health
- Revisiting the Importance of Play
- Sacred Earth Review
- Technology’s Effects on Music
- The Instruments
- Three Lessons I Learned Playing “Portal”
- Time as Told in Music
- Video Games, Violence, and Emotional Development
- What Is Improvisation, and Why Practice?
- What is Meditation, and Why Is it Useful?
- Why Write Music?
