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To: Al seckel
Fran: Jeffrey Epstein
Sent Thur 11/4/2010 7:14:51 AM
Subject Re: Fwd: Catching up
I wrote a comment as asked , but could not acess the blog
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Al seckel wrote:
Did you send this to me by mistake?
131W, have you ever heard of Sean Bennett? He was a remarkably gifted prodigy
pianist (transcribed all the Horowitz variations by ear, performed them flawlessly)
but then went on to study neuroscience at Harvard. He worked in Kosslyn's lab
and came up with some interesting ideas about music and language. I know this
was an interest of yours. If you don't know him, I will send some links. He is quite
remarkable in a number of ways.
From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacationeamail.com>
To: Al seckel <na>
Sent: Wed, November 3, 2010 11:53:27 PM
Subject: Fwd: Catching up
Forwarded message
From: Mark Tramo MD PhD
Date: Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: Catching up
To: Jeffrey Epstein leevacation@gmail.com>
Yes, indeed!...Will call via Lesley tomorrow (Thurs 11/5) -
What are you up to these days? Are you back from Europe? Back in science? We need you!
Just got a paper accepted on autonomic responses to pain and their modulation by music in
premature infants...going to the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in SD next week to
present some work on the role of human auditory cortex in intensity processing and loudness
perception...got nominated for govemship on the LA Board of the Natl Academy of
Recording Arts & Sciences...
And am banging away on the innateness hypothesis from a mathematical perspective:
Simplicity in spatial/spectral (harmonic) relationships in an instant of time and simplicity in
temporal (rhythmic) relationships -
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If we show that we can attenuate pain-induced heart-rate increases in premies with consonant -
but not dissonant - music, or with metrical but not non-metrical rhythms (carried by synthetic
heartbeat sounds), we'd have evidence from the brains of babies that are MINUS I or more
months of age! An Institute summer student and I composed and synthesized piano lullabies
and random/metrical rhythms via Sibelius and a number generator, and have a Logic Studio
setup up and running...we sent FSN a proposal on this one last year. The Grammy Foundation
awarded us a grant but cut the budget from $40k to $25k because they were short on funds.
The Doris Duke Foundation said they loved the proposal but are/were under water...
And trying to find the time needed to finish my book proposal for ICM Talent - an "advance on
an advance" - maybe a Guggenheim Foundation grant? Otherwise, that time has to go into
seeing my thousandth stroke patient, hundredth MS patient, etc. My book agent, Kris Dahl,
who has a nice stable ofNY Times top-20 fiction and non-fiction writers, thinks I can get
upwards of 100-150k as an advance, given my background and credentials. Getting tapped by
the senior commissionng neuroscience/psychology editor at Oxford Press to do the first
Cognitive Neuroscience of Music textbook won't hurt either. For that honor, Oxford gave me
a whopping 2.2k advance!
Peace & Love,
Mark
Message from jeevacation@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:33:04 -0400
From: Jeffrey Epstein leevacation@gmail.com>
To: "Tramo, Mark Jude"
> its been too long.. bring me up to speed
>
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