http://jakemandell.com Music Snapshots Thu, 22 May 2008 17:03:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many creative musicians "hear" shapes when they listen to music. I've labeled the ability to do this logically as associative musical visual intelligence, or "amvi" for short. This flash-based test attempts to quantify one's ability to represent musical phrases as shapes. It's a challenging test to complete successfully, but the ... http://jakemandell.com/2008/how-well-can-you-hear-shapes-test-your-musical-visual-symbolic-intelligence/ Lesion Localizer is a flash-based interactive environment to integrate MRI anatomy with the clinical presentation of classic neurological syndromes. At the heart of the project is an MRI atlas in which structures are highlighted and labeled as the mouse over the image. The MRI images can be freely explored in ... http://jakemandell.com/2008/lesion-localizer-integrating-clinical-neurology-with-a-complete-mri-atlas/ This atlas was created during my radiology rotation. I think it is unique among the many head CT atlases out there, as regions are highlighted as you mouse over them. I was frustrated with the design of most atlases, which used many small lines to point to structures. With this ... http://jakemandell.com/2007/explore-head-and-neck-anatomy-with-a-fully-labelled-mouseover-atlas/ "But I've never heard of being rhythmdeaf," you may ask. Someone who is "rhythmdeaf" has difficulty perceiving changes in a beat. This handicap would make it extremely difficult for such an indivual to succeed in a career of reality television cavorting with the well-toned, too-tanned B-list crowd. If you think that ... http://jakemandell.com/2006/cant-dance-test-to-see-if-youre-rhythmdeaf/ This was my first release. I was living with Madison WI, learning from and arguing about music with my good friend Stewart Walker. I lived in an apartment with the best man in my wedding Jeffers Egan. Both are now much more successful as artists than I ever was. Before ... http://jakemandell.com/2006/dlue-veacon-primedeep-1997-madison/ If you enjoyed taking the tonedeaf test, then you will also have fun with this one. This is a completely new test designed to quickly measure how well you can tell two tones apart. Like the tonedeaf test, this test was also developed while I was a researcher at the Music ... http://jakemandell.com/2006/measure-your-pitch-perception-abilities-in-3-minutes/ While working at the music and neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel in Boston, I developed a quick online way to screen for the tonedeafness. It actually turned out to be a pretty good test to check for overall pitch perception ability. The test is purposefully made very hard, so excellent ... http://jakemandell.com/2006/test-your-musical-skills-in-6-minutes/ I love Puerto Rico. The exceedingly hospitable guys running this label invited me to PR twice - each time was fantastic. The first time was when I was living in Minneapolis, the second time was from Berlin. Talk about 180 degrees of culture difference, and about 90 degrees of temperature ... http://jakemandell.com/2006/noche-de-luna/ Imagine what an empty subway tunnel would sound like in a thousand years. Underling is my second ambient CD, released on my own Kodama label. I was working in Minneapolis at Yamamoto-Moss, a fancy design company that had catered lunches every day. They designed logos for Pillsbury and things like that ... http://jakemandell.com/2006/underling/ My second album, a product of the Minneapolis winter. There was a coffee shop right up the street from my apartment. It was called something terrible, like "Cyber Cafe": There were tons of dog-eared magazines in between the crust-filled cracks of an eclectic sofa collection and some PCs to play ... http://jakemandell.com/2006/quondam-current/