Music & the Human Experience
Music is found in every culture worldwide. It's our constant companion, from birth through
childhood, love, marriage and death. It has a starring role on every stage
of the great human drama - whether we are at war or at prayer, by ourselves
or with others, happy or sad - music is there. But does it really have a
purpose? Where does it come from? And why does it have such power over our
hearts and minds?
Taking a look at the How and Why of music, the team that brought you the
Peabody-Award winning series The Wire: the Impact of Electricity on
Music brings you a new six-part series, The
Nerve: Music & the Human Experience.
The Nerve was first broadcast in September and October, 2008.
All episodes are archived on this site and you can listen by navigating to
the Episode tabs above.
*NEWS: *In July, The Nerve won two medals at the New York Festivals Radio
Programming Awards!
Silver Medal (Culture & the Arts)
Silver Medal (Best Editing)
Thanks for checking out The Nerve. If you have any questions or comments,
please drop us a line using the Contact tab above.
The Nerve is: Jowi Taylor: Host/Producer, Paolo Pietropaolo: Producer,
Chris Brookes: Producer, Ian Cauthery: Web Producer
Find out how music is processed by different parts of the brain in this interactive feature.
A real Winnipeg favourite, this quartet brought its urban-rootsy, homespun sound to the Park Theatre. Their guitars, banjo, accordion, bass and drums are topped by the sweetest vocals and enhanced, strangely, by the theramin. Their sound captures the duality of the prairies in that it is at once contemporary and old-fashioned, dark and light, lonely yet cosy.