Radiolab host Jad Abumrad is known for experimenting with sounds on his show and his Guest DJ picks reflect both his musical sophistication as well as some guilty pleasures. Jad talks about forming his musical identity with epic rock anthems, when Underworld destroyed him on the dance floor and how Bartok transformed the way he thinks about classical music.
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Guest DJ Project: Jad Abumrad
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Radiolab: Death Mask
Near the end of the 19th century, a mysterious young woman with a beguiling smile turned up in Paris. She became a huge sensation. She also happened to be dead. You’d probably recognize her face yourself. You might have even touched it.
http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2011/nov/28/death-mask
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Radiolab Shorts: Damn It, Basal Ganglia
"The basal ganglia is a core part of the brain, deep inside your skull, that helps control movement. Unless something upsets the chain of command. In this short, Jad and Robert meet a young researcher who was studying what happens when the basal ganglia gets short-circuited in mice…until one fateful day, when things got really, really weird."
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Radiolab: A 4-Track Mind
In this short, a neurologist issues a dare to a ragtime piano player and a famous conductor. When the two men face off in an fMRI machine, the challenge is so unimaginably difficult that one man instantly gives up. But the other achieves a musical feat that ought to be impossible.
http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2011/jul/26/4-track-mind/