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To:
Jeffrey Epsteinueevacation©gmail.com]
From:
Al seckel
Sent
Thur 11/4/2010 7:07:23 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Catching up
Did you send this to me by mistake?
BTW, 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 <jeeyacation@gmall.COM>
To: Al seckel
Sent: wed, No•nr$11.1:27
PM
Subject: Fwd: Catching up
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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 -
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 1 or more
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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 of NY 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 iecvacation@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:33:04 -0400
From: Jeffrey Epstein <jecvacation@gmail.com>
To: "Tramo, Mark Jude"
> its been too long., bring me up to speed
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