Ahmusai love is on the way
AHMUSAI LOVE IS ON THE WAY FREE
It’s a deeply human book, and his most personal.” - Quill & Quire “An engaging tale.” - Winnipeg Free Press “As a reader you can’t help but empathize with Falconer as he struggles through his singing lessons, learning to control his voice even though he can’t always hit the pitches. And deep down, it matters’ produce an undercurrent of sorrow, but far more pronounced are his curiosity, vulnerability, and perseverance. And it has much to say about the mystery of how music moves all of us, good and bad singers alike.” - John Colapinto, author of Undone “Falconer’s self-deprecating humour keeps Bad Singer’s tone lighthearted and as entertaining as the photos of him hamming it up as a singer on the book cover. Bad Singer is a fun, fascinating, beautifully written, and strangely moving tale of a melodically-challenged man who yearned to sing. What Falconer lacks in pitch he makes up for in curiosity and passion.” - Toronto Star “In his journey to understand why, exactly, he can't hold a tune - while having the ears and taste to appreciate great singing and songwriting - Tim Falconer takes us on a deeply absorbing journey into the worlds of brain science, singing coaches, music psychologists, ethnomusicologists, and into his own keening, music-loving heart. While he may be a bad singer, he’s a thorough researcher and gifted raconteur. He’s the protagonist yet he doesn’t digress into self-indulgence.
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He conducts lengthy interviews and fluidly articulates complex scientific concepts. “ Bad Singer deftly combines a memoir of Falconer’s personal musical history with a scientific look into how humans hear music.” - Maclean’s “A remarkable story of dogged determination to prove his own body wrong and, as such, is one of the more illuminating cultural studies of modern times.” - Globe and Mail “An engaging, step-by-step look into how scientists study tone deafness … an essential tale about how human beings, even those of us with tin ears, can’t help but be drawn to music … Over the last decade there have been a number of books published about the science of music - such as Daniel Levitan’s This Is Your Brain on Music, Oliver Sacks’s Musicophilia, and David Byrne’s How Music Works - and Bad Singer is a doubly successful effort because it doesn’t retread the same ground of these books, with Falconer couching his subject in a personal journey that’s enjoyable to follow.” - National Post “A spirited, even adventurous look at the mysteries of how the human brain perceives and processes sound - and even, on occasion, manages to make beautiful music.” - Kirkus Reviews “Falconer is old school in his traditional approach to journalism. And he unlocks the secret that helps explain why music has such emotional power over us.
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He also sets out to understand why we love music and deconstructs what we really hear when we listen to it.
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In an effort to learn more about his brain disorder, he goes to a series of labs where the scientists who test him are as fascinated with him as he is with them. Tim Falconer, a self-confessed “bad singer,” always wanted to make music, but soon after he starts singing lessons, he discovers that he’s part of only 2.5 percent of the population afflicted with amusia - in other words, he is scientifically tone-deaf.īad Singer chronicles his quest to understand human evolution and music, the brain science behind tone-deafness, his search for ways to retrain the adult brain, and his investigation into what we really hear when we listen to music. In the tradition of Daniel Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music and Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia, Bad Singer follows the delightful journey of Tim Falconer as he tries to overcome tone deafness - and along the way discovers what we’re really hearing when we listen to music.