Sources
A consolidated index of the peer-reviewed research and primary sources cited across the editorial work on this site. Organised alphabetically by first author. Each entry shows which articles it underpins.
This page exists so that readers, researchers, librarians, and search engines can verify the provenance of any claim made in our articles. The Music & Mind section in particular draws on Cochrane reviews, meta-analyses, and randomised trials — we list those primary sources here for the same reason a journal lists its references: traceability.
Where possible, prefer the original peer-reviewed source over our editorial summary when stronger authority is required.
ANOHNI
- ANOHNI's vibrato read through Barthes (Anna Muchitsch) — Cambridge / Popular Music; Bon Iver's "Messina" rig (Chris Messina) — W Magazine.
Cited in: The grain of the voice: Barthes in the age of Auto-Tune
AURORA
- AURORA — official site, aurora-music.com.
Cited in: AURORA: eco-pop, moral imagination, and the case for pop with a worldview
Adam
- Adam Perlmutter, "José González's Inner Visions" — method, tunings, tone, the Nick Drake division (quotes) — Premier Guitar.
Cited in: José González: the lab and the nylon string
Adele
- Adele and Spotify's default-to-play change — Variety; Beyoncé (2013) and the Friday release-day shift — Wikipedia); Hit Me Hard and Soft — Wikipedia.
Cited in: The album as one sustained argument
Agnes
- Agnes Obel — artist page, Blue Note Records.
Cited in: Cinematic acoustic pop: four artists who make the case for the category
American
- American Music Therapy Association — definition of music therapy vs music medicine, musictherapy.org.
Cited in: Music and healing: what the evidence actually shows
Analogue
- Analogue creed and the Juno-60 — MusicRadar; the digital-console concession — Live Production TV.
Cited in: Nils Frahm and the engineering of intimacy
Andy
- Andy Hildebrand and the invention of Auto-Tune (1997) — Vice; the Cher "Believe" effect and its concealment — Sound On Sound; ubiquity and the Rubin quote — Wikipedia: Auto-Tune; Melodyne's note-level editing — Sound On Sound.
Cited in: The grain of the voice: Barthes in the age of Auto-Tune
Arnalds
- Arnalds on method, the SM57 living-room sessions, Broadchurch — Sound On Sound.
Cited in: Ólafur Arnalds: feeling, engineered
Associated
- Associated Press — coverage of Djesse Vol. 4 and audience-recording practice.
Cited in: Jacob Collier in Vilnius: how complexity turns into communion
Bannister
- Bannister, S., & Eerola, T. (2018). Suppressing the chills: effects of musical manipulation on the chills response. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2046. frontiersin.org.
Cited in: Why music gives us chills — and why some of us get them more than others
Barton
- Barton, B. R., et al. Music in software engineering, IEEE Software (2020), computer.org.
Cited in: Music for reading and coding — the evidence behind the work
Belfi
- Belfi, A. M., Karlan, B., & Tranel, D. (2016). Music evokes vivid autobiographical memories. Memory, 24(7), 979–989. tandfonline.com.
Cited in: Why a song can open memories that a photograph cannot
Bernardi
- Bernardi, L., Porta, C., & Sleight, P. (2006). Cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and respiratory changes induced by different types of music in musicians and non-musicians. Heart. Two-minute silent pauses dropped HR/BP/ventilation below baseline.
Cited in: Silence in music: why a pause is not emptiness - Bernardi, L., Porta, C., & Sleight, P. (2006). Cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and respiratory changes induced by different types of music in musicians and non-musicians. Heart.
Cited in: Why slow music reaches deeper than it seems
Bignardi
- Bignardi, G., Admiraal, D., Eising, E., & Fisher, S. E. (2026). Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music. PLOS Genetics, 22(2), e1012002. journals.plos.org.
Cited in: Why music gives us chills — and why some of us get them more than others
Bilietai
- Bilietai — STING 3.0 LIVE at Kalnų parkas, Vilnius, 23 June 2026.
Cited in: Sting in Vilnius: a case for adult intelligence in pop
Billie
- Billie Eilish's close-miked vocals — Headliner; the proximity effect (physics of intimacy) — My New Microphone.
Cited in: The grain of the voice: Barthes in the age of Auto-Tune
Bowmer
- Bowmer, A., Mason, K., Knight, J., & Welch, G. (2018). Investigating the impact of a musical intervention on preschool children's executive function. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2389.
Cited in: Why complex music sharpens creative listening
Bradt
- Bradt, J., Dileo, C. — meta-analyses on music interventions in cancer patients, Cochrane and adjacent journals.
Cited in: Music and healing: what the evidence actually shows
Britannica
- Britannica — Jazz, britannica.com.
Cited in: Jazz as an open method — improvisation, individuality, the room - Britannica — Sting (British musician), britannica.com.
Cited in: Sting in Vilnius: a case for adult intelligence in pop
Brodsky
- Brodsky, W. The effects of music tempo on simulated driving performance. Transportation Research Part F.
Cited in: Fast music: activation, motivation, and the cost of speed
Burkhard
- Burkhard, A., et al. Go/No-Go performance and 154 BPM background music — impaired inhibitory control under fast music.
Cited in: Fast music: activation, motivation, and the cost of speed
Cheah
- Cheah, Y., Wong, H. K., Spitzer, M., & Coutinho, E. (2022). Background music and cognitive task performance, Music & Science, journals.sagepub.com.
Cited in: Music for reading and coding — the evidence behind the work - Cheah, Y., Wong, H. K., Spitzer, M., & Coutinho, E. (2022). Background music and cognitive task performance: a systematic review of task, music, and population impact. Music & Science, 5. journals.sagepub.com.
Cited in: Music for studying: what the evidence actually allows you to claim
Cheung
- Cheung, V. K. M., Harrison, P. M. C., Meyer, L., Pearce, M. T., Haynes, J.-D., & Koelsch, S. (2019). Uncertainty and surprise jointly predict musical pleasure and amygdala, hippocampus, and auditory cortex activity. Current Biology, 29(23), 4084–4092. doi.org.
Cited in: Why music gives us chills — and why some of us get them more than others
Cochrane
- Cochrane Review — Music-based therapeutic interventions for people with dementia, multiple updates.
Cited in: Music and healing: what the evidence actually shows - Cochrane Review — Music interventions for acquired brain injury and post-stroke neurologic music therapy literature.
Cited in: Music and healing: what the evidence actually shows
Cognitive
- Cognitive reserve hypothesis in musical engagement — review work in Frontiers in Psychology and adjacent venues.
Cited in: Music and intelligence: what music actually trains, and what it doesn't
Coldplay
- Coldplay — Everyday Life official announcement and album page, coldplay.com.
Cited in: Coldplay's Everyday Life: a ritual for non-simplified humanism
Czepiel
- Czepiel, A., Fink, L. K., Fink, L. T., Wald-Fuhrmann, M., Tröndle, M., & Merrill, J. (2021). Synchrony in the periphery: inter-subject correlation of physiological responses during live music concerts. Scientific Reports, 11, 22457.
Cited in: Why live acoustic concerts move us so deeply
Diana
- Diana Deutsch, the speech-to-song illusion (1995) — Wikipedia; Deutsch, Henthorn & Lapidis (2011), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America — PDF.
Cited in: On re-listening: how a song becomes yours
Edge
- Edge Hill University — "Music enhances empathic engagement with characters in films" (research summary), research.edgehill.ac.uk.
Cited in: Why music can make people fall in love (and stay there) - Edge Hill University — "Music enhances empathic engagement with characters in films" (research summary).
Cited in: Sting in Vilnius: a case for adult intelligence in pop
Elizabeth
- Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (Oxford University Press, 2014) — OUP; "repeatability is how songs come to be the property of a group" — University of Arkansas.
Cited in: On re-listening: how a song becomes yours
Familiarity
- Familiarity, mind wandering, and lexical-semantic processing — Bidelman, G., & Feng, S. (2025). Familiar Music Reduces Mind Wandering and Boosts Behavioral Performance During Lexical Semantic Processing, Brain Sciences, 15(5), doi.org.
Cited in: Music for reading and coding — the evidence behind the work - Familiarity, mind wandering, and lexical-semantic processing — Bidelman, G., & Feng, S. (2025). Familiar Music Reduces Mind Wandering and Boosts Behavioral Performance During Lexical Semantic Processing, Brain Sciences, 15(5), doi.org.
Cited in: Music for studying: what the evidence actually allows you to claim
Ferreri
- Ferreri, L., Mas-Herrero, E., Zatorre, R. J., et al. (2019). Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by music. PNAS, 116(9), 3793–3798. pnas.org.
Cited in: Why music gives us chills — and why some of us get them more than others
Frühholz
- Frühholz, S., et al. (2024). Live music stimulates the affective brain and emotionally entrains listeners in real time. PNAS, 121(10), e2316306121.
Cited in: Why live acoustic concerts move us so deeply
General
- General multisensory perception literature on context-dependent flavour evaluation.
Cited in: Music and coffee: how sound rewrites the taste of a cup
Gold
- Gold, B. P., Pearce, M. T., Mas-Herrero, E., Dagher, A., & Zatorre, R. J. (2019). Predictability and uncertainty in the pleasure of music: a reward for learning? Journal of Neuroscience, 39(47).
Cited in: Why complex music sharpens creative listening - Gold, B. P., Mas-Herrero, E., Zeighami, Y., Benovoy, M., Dagher, A., & Zatorre, R. J. (2019). Musical reward prediction errors engage the nucleus accumbens and motivate learning. PNAS, 116(8), 3310–3315.
Cited in: Why complex music sharpens creative listening
Hearing
- Hearing versus listening, the just-intonation accordion — eContact!; the Expanded Instrument System — Tape Op.
Cited in: Pauline Oliveros: listening as composition
Heaven
- Heaven Shall Burn's Antigone and Arnalds's intro/outro — Wikipedia).
Cited in: Ólafur Arnalds: feeling, engineered
Hennessy
- Hennessy, S., Greer, T., Narayanan, S., & Habibi, A. (2024). Unique affective profile of music-evoked nostalgia. Emotion.
Cited in: How melancholic songs shape emotion and memory
Hero
- Hero photo: Justinas Stanislovaitis live photograph, via justinasstanislovaitis.lt/en/media/ — used per the artist's stated permission for editorial coverage.
Cited in: Nemiga ir noktiurnai: an album of carefully shaped silence - Hero photo: "Trumpet Player's Expressive Performance — New Orleans Jazz NHP" by Hunter Miles Davis / NPS, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
Cited in: Jazz as an open method — improvisation, individuality, the room - Hero photo: "Couple silhouette at Ras Jebel beach during sunset" by Marwenwafi, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cited in: Why music can make people fall in love (and stay there) - Hero photo: "Jacob Collier at the 2024 Positivus Festival" by Krists Luhaers, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Cropped and resized for web display; no other alterations.
Cited in: Jacob Collier in Vilnius: how complexity turns into communion - Hero photo: "Cup of black coffee" by Subhashish Panigrahi, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cited in: Music and coffee: how sound rewrites the taste of a cup - Hero photo: "Graz University Library reading room" by Dr. Marcus Gossler, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cited in: Lyrics as literature: when the song earns the page - Hero photo: "Portland Japanese Gardens — zen garden" by Laurascudder, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cited in: Music and meditation: attention, the body, and the limits of practice - Hero photo: "Pauline Oliveros — Sonic Acts 2012" by Pinar Temiz, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cited in: Pauline Oliveros: listening as composition - Hero photo: "Graz University Library reading room" by Dr. Marcus Gossler, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cited in: Music and intelligence: what music actually trains, and what it doesn't - Hero photo: "Minimal vinyl player" by Lee Campbell, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 (public-domain dedication). Resized for web display.
Cited in: The album as one sustained argument - Hero photo: "Minimal vinyl player" by Lee Campbell, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 (public-domain dedication). Resized for web display.
Cited in: Cinematic acoustic pop: four artists who make the case for the category - Hero photo: "Ólafur Arnalds, Rudolstadt-Festival 2019" by Carsten Stiller, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cited in: Ólafur Arnalds: feeling, engineered - Hero photo: "Nils Frahm at Down The Rabbit Hole 2018" by FakirNL, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cited in: Nils Frahm and the engineering of intimacy - Hero photo: "José González (ZMF 2017)" by Joergens.mi, via Wikimedia Commons_jm39824.jpg), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cited in: José González: the lab and the nylon string - Hero photo: "Jordan Piano Co. window (LCCN 2016823436)" by National Photo Company Collection, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
Cited in: The Innocence Mission: indie folk that thinks in a quieter sentence - Hero photo: Justinas Stanislovaitis press portrait, via justinasstanislovaitis.lt/en/media/ — used per the artist's stated permission for editorial coverage.
Cited in: Between Silence and Light: a slow-listening concert - Hero photo: "Mostly Empty Living Room" by Paulo O, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
Cited in: Silence in music: why a pause is not emptiness - Hero photo: "Bedroom studio with laptop and monitors" by Gerald Moore, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
Cited in: Lo-fi for coding and reading: why it helps — but not the way you think - Hero photo: "Running on treadmills (motion blur)" by Brandon Wiggins, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cited in: Fast music: activation, motivation, and the cost of speed
Husein
- Husein, K., & Fernandes, M. (2026). Popular songs evoke autobiographical memories in younger and older adults: specifying the source. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. tandfonline.com.
Cited in: Why a song can open memories that a photograph cannot
Jacob
- Jacob Collier — official site and 2026 tour calendar, jacobcollier.com.
Cited in: Jacob Collier in Vilnius: how complexity turns into communion
Janata
- Janata, P. (2009). The neural architecture of music-evoked autobiographical memories. Cerebral Cortex, 19(11), 2579–2594. academic.oup.com.
Cited in: Why a song can open memories that a photograph cannot
Johns
- Johns Hopkins — public summary of the Limb & Braun improvisation study, and the origin of the "switching off the inner critic" phrasing.
Cited in: Jazz as an open method — improvisation, individuality, the room
José
- José González (singer) — biography, science background, discography, Junip, family/diaspora — Wikipedia).
Cited in: José González: the lab and the nylon string - José González on humanism and Local Valley — Atwood Magazine.
Cited in: José González: the lab and the nylon string
Justinas
- Justinas Stanislovaitis — official artist site, justinasstanislovaitis.lt.
Cited in: Nemiga ir noktiurnai: an album of carefully shaped silence - Justinas Stanislovaitis — official site and Between Silence and Light programme description, justinasstanislovaitis.lt.
Cited in: Cinematic acoustic pop: four artists who make the case for the category - Justinas Stanislovaitis — official artist page, justinasstanislovaitis.lt.
Cited in: Between Silence and Light: a slow-listening concert
Karageorghis
- Karageorghis, C. I., et al. (2026). Swimming engagement at 120 BPM — positive engagement vs unchanged objective performance.
Cited in: Fast music: activation, motivation, and the cost of speed
Karen
- Karen Peris, Personal Best interview, The Line of Best Fit.
Cited in: The Innocence Mission: indie folk that thinks in a quieter sentence
Kawase
- Kawase, S., & Obata, S. (2016). Audience gaze while appreciating a multipart musical performance. Consciousness and Cognition, 46, 15–26.
Cited in: Why live acoustic concerts move us so deeply
Kelly
- Kelly Jakubowski, earworm study (Goldsmiths) — Goldsmiths.
Cited in: On re-listening: how a song becomes yours
Kiasmos
- Kiasmos with Janus Rasmussen, and II — Wikipedia; "no place for ego" — Qobuz.
Cited in: Ólafur Arnalds: feeling, engineered
Kirste
- Kirste, I., et al. (2013). Is silence golden? Effects of auditory stimuli on hippocampal neurogenesis. Brain Structure and Function. (Mouse model — interpret with care.)
Cited in: Silence in music: why a pause is not emptiness
Kiss
- Kiss, L., & Linnell, K. J. (2024). The role of mood and arousal in the effect of background music on attentional state and performance during a sustained attention task. Scientific Reports, 14, 9485. doi.org.
Cited in: Lo-fi for coding and reading: why it helps — but not the way you think
Leonard
- Leonard Cohen, poet and novelist before songwriter — Academy of American Poets.
Cited in: Lyrics as literature: when the song earns the page - Leonard Cohen — biography and thematic overview, Britannica.
Cited in: Between Silence and Light: a slow-listening concert
Lesiuk
- Lesiuk, T. The effect of music listening on work performance. Psychology of Music.
Cited in: Lo-fi for coding and reading: why it helps — but not the way you think
Live
- Live review (the toilet-brush passage) — The Line of Best Fit; Music for Animals — Bandcamp; Piano Day — Wikipedia.
Cited in: Nils Frahm and the engineering of intimacy
Loveday
- Loveday, C., Woy, A., & Conway, M. A. (2020). The self-defining period in autobiographical memory: evidence from a long-running radio show. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Cited in: How melancholic songs shape emotion and memory
Mathiesen
- Mathiesen, S. L., et al. The interaction between sound and taste: a systematic review. International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science / PubMed 31059484.
Cited in: Music while eating: how tempo, loudness, and tone rewrite the meal - Mathiesen, S. L., et al. Eating tempo and chewing rate — 85 vs 145 BPM and meal duration.
Cited in: Fast music: activation, motivation, and the cost of speed - Mathiesen, S. L., et al. Music tempo and meal duration: eating behaviour at 85 vs 145 BPM.
Cited in: Why slow music reaches deeper than it seems
Matthews
- Matthews, T. E., Witek, M. A. G., Heggli, O. A., Penhune, V. B., & Vuust, P. (2019). The sensation of groove is affected by the interaction of rhythmic and harmonic complexity. PLOS ONE, 14(1), e0204539.
Cited in: Why complex music sharpens creative listening
Milman
- Milman Parry and Albert Lord, the guslar fieldwork (1933–35) — Wikipedia.
Cited in: Lyrics as literature: when the song earns the page
Mixed-effect
- Mixed-effect literature on background music and cognitive performance.
Cited in: Music and intelligence: what music actually trains, and what it doesn't
Music
- Music and emotion regulation — 2023 meta-analysis of randomised studies on musicking.
Cited in: Nemiga ir noktiurnai: an album of carefully shaped silence - Music and emotion regulation — 2023 meta-analysis of randomised studies.
Cited in: Jazz as an open method — improvisation, individuality, the room - Music and emotion regulation — 2023 meta-analysis of randomised studies on musicking interventions.
Cited in: Jacob Collier in Vilnius: how complexity turns into communion - Music and emotion regulation — 2023 meta-analysis of randomised studies (effect sizes for musicking interventions on affect).
Cited in: Sting in Vilnius: a case for adult intelligence in pop
Music-and-pain
- Music-and-pain research on self-selected versus imposed music — clinical psychology literature.
Cited in: Music and meditation: attention, the body, and the limits of practice
Nick
- Nick Cave — public reflections on faith, love and grief, The Red Hand Files.
Cited in: Between Silence and Light: a slow-listening concert
Nils
- Nils Frahm — "Felt", his own account of the felt-damping and close-miking — nilsfrahm.com.
Cited in: Nils Frahm and the engineering of intimacy
North
- North, A. C., & Hargreaves, D. J. Wine-selection-by-music retail experiments and follow-up replications.
Cited in: Music while eating: how tempo, loudness, and tone rewrite the meal
Okada
- Okada, B. M., & Slevc, L. R. (2018). Individual differences in musical training and executive functions: a latent variable approach. Memory & Cognition, 46(7), 1076–1092.
Cited in: Why complex music sharpens creative listening
Oliveros
- Oliveros's legacy — The Vinyl Factory; obituary — NPR.
Cited in: Pauline Oliveros: listening as composition
Open
- Open Research Europe — mixed-method study on music in relationship stages.
Cited in: Why music can make people fall in love (and stay there)
Other sources
- Bernardinai — Justinas Stanislovaitis tag and profile, bernardinai.lt.
Cited in: Nemiga ir noktiurnai: an album of carefully shaped silence - Lrytas — review and context of Nemiga ir noktiurnai (2025), lrytas.lt.
Cited in: Nemiga ir noktiurnai: an album of carefully shaped silence - PLOS ONE — fMRI study of improvisation in jazz pianists (Limb & Braun, 2008), journals.plos.org.
Cited in: Jazz as an open method — improvisation, individuality, the room - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience — "Cortical Regions Involved in the Generation of Musical Structures during Improvisation in Pianists" (Bengtsson, Csíkszentmihályi & Ullén, 2007), direct.mit.edu.
Cited in: Jazz as an open method — improvisation, individuality, the room - Nature Neuroscience — "Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music" (Salimpoor et al., 2011), nature.com.
Cited in: Jazz as an open method — improvisation, individuality, the room - Frontiers in Psychology — theoretical review on music in romantic relationships (2024), frontiersin.org.
Cited in: Why music can make people fall in love (and stay there) - PLOS ONE — qualities of music-evoked autobiographical memories (2025), journals.plos.org.
Cited in: Why music can make people fall in love (and stay there) - The Guardian — Djesse Vol. 4 review, theguardian.com.
Cited in: Jacob Collier in Vilnius: how complexity turns into communion - Royal Society Open Science — "The ice-breaker effect: singing mediates fast social bonding" (Pearce et al., 2015), royalsocietypublishing.org.
Cited in: Jacob Collier in Vilnius: how complexity turns into communion - Nature Neuroscience — "Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music" (Salimpoor et al., 2011), nature.com.
Cited in: Jacob Collier in Vilnius: how complexity turns into communion - Frontiers in Computer Science — review on coffee and multisensory experience (sonic seasoning, 2021), frontiersin.org.
Cited in: Music and coffee: how sound rewrites the taste of a cup - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review — theoretical review of auditory–gustatory crossmodal correspondences (Knöferle & Spence, 2012), link.springer.com.
Cited in: Music and coffee: how sound rewrites the taste of a cup - Food Research International / Elsevier — dynamic perception of coffee with sweet vs bitter music (2021), sciencedirect.com.
Cited in: Music and coffee: how sound rewrites the taste of a cup - "Idiot Wind" — the "skull / Capitol" rhyme, Ricks's reading, the earlier draft, Ginsberg — Wikipedia.
Cited in: Lyrics as literature: when the song earns the page - "Tutti Frutti" — the drum-fill refrain, the National Recording Registry, Rolling Stone — Wikipedia).
Cited in: Lyrics as literature: when the song earns the page - Royal Society Open Science — "The ice-breaker effect: singing mediates fast social bonding" (Pearce et al., 2015), royalsocietypublishing.org.
Cited in: Sting in Vilnius: a case for adult intelligence in pop - Pauline Oliveros — biography, the SF Tape Music Center, the 1988 cistern, the Institute — Wikipedia; the Deep Listening album and cistern — Wikipedia: Deep Listening Band.
Cited in: Pauline Oliveros: listening as composition - Sonic Meditations score, incl. the Introduction and the control-of-sound passages (1974) — SoundPortraits PDF; "Teach Yourself to Fly" — Activities Index.
Cited in: Pauline Oliveros: listening as composition - "Deep Listening is a birthright" — Center for Deep Listening, Rensselaer; the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) — Improvisation Institute.
Cited in: Pauline Oliveros: listening as composition - Born to Run — the "four corners" sequencing and the late move of "Backstreets" — Wikipedia.
Cited in: The album as one sustained argument - What's Going On (Marvin Gaye, 1971) — gapless song-cycle — Wikipedia).
Cited in: The album as one sustained argument - To Pimp a Butterfly — the poem completed in "Mortal Man" / the Tupac interview — Everything Is Noise; Lemonade chapters — Wikipedia).
Cited in: The album as one sustained argument - Javelin review (Sufjan Stevens) — Pitchfork.
Cited in: Cinematic acoustic pop: four artists who make the case for the category - Myopia review (Agnes Obel) — Pitchfork.
Cited in: Cinematic acoustic pop: four artists who make the case for the category - Ólafur Arnalds — biography, the metal-band origin, Broadchurch and the BAFTA, the Defending Jacob Emmy nomination — Wikipedia.
Cited in: Ólafur Arnalds: feeling, engineered - Island Songs — seven weeks, seven locations — CutCommon.
Cited in: Ólafur Arnalds: feeling, engineered - 2024 meta-analysis on music therapy in eye surgery — anxiety and procedural pain outcomes.
Cited in: Music and healing: what the evidence actually shows - "Work flow" music for selective attention — PLOS ONE (2025), journals.plos.org.
Cited in: Music for reading and coding — the evidence behind the work - de la Mora Velasco, E., & Hirumi, A. (2020). The effects of background music on learning: a systematic review, Educational Technology Research and Development, link.springer.com.
Cited in: Music for reading and coding — the evidence behind the work - Felt (2011) and Spaces (2013) — releases, the live-collage method, "Says" — Wikipedia: Felt), Wikipedia: Spaces).
Cited in: Nils Frahm and the engineering of intimacy - Everyday Life review, Pitchfork, pitchfork.com.
Cited in: Coldplay's Everyday Life: a ritual for non-simplified humanism - When I Need a Friend — official lyrics, coldplay.com.
Cited in: Coldplay's Everyday Life: a ritual for non-simplified humanism - "José González on Local Valley" — tunings, the Bombino jam, programmed rhythm — Acoustic Guitar.
Cited in: José González: the lab and the nylon string - "From biochemistry to nylon-string troubadour" — the bomba-drum lineage — Guitar.com.
Cited in: José González: the lab and the nylon string - "Heartbeats" — The Knife original, the Bravia advert, chart peak — Official Charts.
Cited in: José González: the lab and the nylon string - Against the Dying of the Light (2026) — release and statement — jose-gonzalez.com.
Cited in: José González: the lab and the nylon string - The Gods We Can Touch review, NME, nme.com.
Cited in: AURORA: eco-pop, moral imagination, and the case for pop with a worldview - Aurora interview: "Nature has been my secret lover for a long time, now it's official," Imagine5, imagine5.com.
Cited in: AURORA: eco-pop, moral imagination, and the case for pop with a worldview - Midwinter Swimmers — album, 2024, Bella Union / Therese Records.
Cited in: The Innocence Mission: indie folk that thinks in a quieter sentence - de la Mora Velasco, E., & Hirumi, A. (2020). The effects of background music on learning: a systematic review of literature to guide future research and practice. Educational Technology Research and Development, 68, 2817–2837. link.springer.com.
Cited in: Music for studying: what the evidence actually allows you to claim - "Work flow" music for selective attention — PLOS ONE (2025), journals.plos.org.
Cited in: Music for studying: what the evidence actually allows you to claim - Between Silence and Light — project description, Premium Event Network.
Cited in: Between Silence and Light: a slow-listening concert - Mindful eating and ambient music: classical music and momentary mindfulness. PubMed 33092479.
Cited in: Music while eating: how tempo, loudness, and tone rewrite the meal - Omission responses and musical expectation. Review-level work in Trends in Cognitive Sciences and NeuroImage.
Cited in: Silence in music: why a pause is not emptiness - EEG of 40 pianists performing fermatas solo and in duet — beta desynchronisation during pauses, synchronisation improvement after shorter pauses. Published via Oxford Academic.
Cited in: Silence in music: why a pause is not emptiness - Lo-fi listening and state anxiety in young adults — reductions in anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and improved relaxation/sleep self-report.
Cited in: Lo-fi for coding and reading: why it helps — but not the way you think - Background music with lyrics and reading comprehension (2024) — lyric-language match worsens comprehension.
Cited in: Lo-fi for coding and reading: why it helps — but not the way you think - Systematic review of background music effects, 95 papers, 154 experiments — small effects on average; lyrics worse than instrumental.
Cited in: Lo-fi for coding and reading: why it helps — but not the way you think - Journal of Cognition — instrumental hip-hop/lo-fi as low-risk background vs lyric-heavy pop.
Cited in: Lo-fi for coding and reading: why it helps — but not the way you think - Work flow vs deep focus vs pop vs office noise on attention performance — PLOS ONE.
Cited in: Lo-fi for coding and reading: why it helps — but not the way you think - EEG correlates of musical tempo — beta/gamma increase with rising BPM, frontoparietal engagement.
Cited in: Fast music: activation, motivation, and the cost of speed - fMRI study comparing tempo across musicians and non-musicians — faster tempo produces stronger emotion-region activation.
Cited in: Fast music: activation, motivation, and the cost of speed - Tempo and motor–auditory cortex coupling — EEG of pianists hearing music at 50, 100, 150, 200 BPM.
Cited in: Fast music: activation, motivation, and the cost of speed - Real-world long-distance driving, tempo, fatigue and attention — mid-tempo as the safest companion.
Cited in: Fast music: activation, motivation, and the cost of speed - Music tempo modulates oxytocin and heart-rate variability — PLOS ONE study on slow- vs fast-tempo listening.
Cited in: Why slow music reaches deeper than it seems - EEG spectral power and musical tempo: theta and alpha increases at lower tempos. Multiple studies in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience and adjacent journals.
Cited in: Why slow music reaches deeper than it seems - 2023 study on musical tempo and cognitive processing speed (response time vs accuracy trade-off).
Cited in: Why slow music reaches deeper than it seems - Watching live performances enhances subjective and physiological emotional responses compared to viewing the same performance on screen. (2025). IBRO Neuroscience Reports, 19, 381–390.
Cited in: Why live acoustic concerts move us so deeply
Patel
- Patel, A. — Music, Language, and the Brain and related rhythm-and-reading literature.
Cited in: Music and intelligence: what music actually trains, and what it doesn't
Patrick
- Patrick Watson — artist page, Secret City Records.
Cited in: Cinematic acoustic pop: four artists who make the case for the category
Peter
- Peter Gabriel — discography and thematic arc, public press materials.
Cited in: Between Silence and Light: a slow-listening concert
Pilot
- Pilot trials in older adults with subjective cognitive decline — meditation and music listening on mood, sleep, and cognition.
Cited in: Music and meditation: attention, the body, and the limits of practice
Premium
- Premium Event Network — Between Silence and Light programme description, premiumeventnetwork.com.
Cited in: Nemiga ir noktiurnai: an album of carefully shaped silence
Public
- Public reporting on TOMORA and recent collaborations — current artist coverage, mid-2026.
Cited in: AURORA: eco-pop, moral imagination, and the case for pop with a worldview
Rainforest
- Rainforest Fund — Who We Are, founding history, rainforestfund.org.
Cited in: Sting in Vilnius: a case for adult intelligence in pop
Reading
- Reading comprehension and lyrics — Impact of background music on reading comprehension: influence of lyrics language and study habits, Frontiers in Psychology (2024), 15, doi.org.
Cited in: Music for reading and coding — the evidence behind the work - Reading comprehension and lyrics — Impact of background music on reading comprehension: influence of lyrics language and study habits, Frontiers in Psychology (2024), 15, doi.org.
Cited in: Music for studying: what the evidence actually allows you to claim
Recording
- Recording Academy — Jacob Collier artist page, grammy.com/artists/jacob-collier.
Cited in: Jacob Collier in Vilnius: how complexity turns into communion - Recording Academy — Sting artist page, grammy.com/artists/sting.
Cited in: Sting in Vilnius: a case for adult intelligence in pop
Research
- Research on music in meditation: rhythm, synchrony, and preference effects.
Cited in: Music and meditation: attention, the body, and the limits of practice - Research on ritual, music and social bonding, and awe — foundational frames from social psychology and music cognition; cited here as interpretive lenses rather than direct claims about this album.
Cited in: Coldplay's Everyday Life: a ritual for non-simplified humanism
Reviews
- Reviews of adverse events in intensive meditation practice — Mindfulness, PLOS ONE, and adjacent literature.
Cited in: Music and meditation: attention, the body, and the limits of practice - Reviews on music interventions in mild cognitive impairment — clinical neuropsychology literature.
Cited in: Music and intelligence: what music actually trains, and what it doesn't - Reviews on rhythmic auditory stimulation and post-stroke gait — clinical neuroscience literature.
Cited in: Music and healing: what the evidence actually shows
Roland
- Roland Barthes, "The Grain of the Voice" (trans. Richard Howard, in The Responsibility of Forms) — the grain, pheno-/geno-song, Panzéra and Fischer-Dieskau, the "myth of breath" — text PDF. First published as "Le grain de la voix", Musique en jeu, 9 (1972); also translated by Stephen Heath in Image-Music-Text (1977).
Cited in: The grain of the voice: Barthes in the age of Auto-Tune
Royal
- Royal Academy of Music — Jacob Collier profile, ram.ac.uk.
Cited in: Jacob Collier in Vilnius: how complexity turns into communion
Saadi
- Saadi's Bani Adam — long-recognised cornerstone of Persian humanist poetry; invoked across centuries of universalist ethics.
Cited in: Coldplay's Everyday Life: a ritual for non-simplified humanism
Saal
- Saal 3 at Funkhaus Berlin — the self-built studio — Sound On Sound.
Cited in: Nils Frahm and the engineering of intimacy
Saarikivi
- Saarikivi, K. A., Huotilainen, M., Tervaniemi, M., & Putkinen, V. (2019). Selectively enhanced development of working memory in musically trained children and adolescents. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 13, 62.
Cited in: Why complex music sharpens creative listening
Sachs
- Sachs, M. E., Damasio, A., & Habibi, A. (2015). The pleasures of sad music: a systematic review. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 404.
Cited in: How melancholic songs shape emotion and memory
Sala
- Sala, G., & Gobet, F. — meta-analyses on music training and far transfer to general cognition, Memory & Cognition and adjacent journals.
Cited in: Music and intelligence: what music actually trains, and what it doesn't
Salamé
- Salamé, P., & Baddeley, A. — Effects of background music on phonological short-term memory, pure.york.ac.uk.
Cited in: Music for studying: what the evidence actually allows you to claim
Salimpoor
- Salimpoor, V. N., Benovoy, M., Larcher, K., Dagher, A., & Zatorre, R. J. (2011). Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music. Nature Neuroscience, 14(2), 257–262. nature.com.
Cited in: Why music gives us chills — and why some of us get them more than others - Salimpoor, Benovoy, Larcher, Dagher & Zatorre (2011), "Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music", Nature Neuroscience — PubMed · Nature; Salimpoor et al. (2013), reward-value prediction — ScienceDaily.
Cited in: On re-listening: how a song becomes yours
Skip
- Skip behaviour (Montecchio, Roy & Pachet, 2020), PLoS ONE — doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239418; US vinyl in 2024 — RIAA.
Cited in: On re-listening: how a song becomes yours
Smithsonian
- Smithsonian — What is Jazz?, americanhistory.si.edu.
Cited in: Jazz as an open method — improvisation, individuality, the room
Spence
- Spence, C. Eating with our ears: assessing the cross-modal influences of music on taste perception. PubMed 23755358 — the foundational sonic seasoning work.
Cited in: Music while eating: how tempo, loudness, and tone rewrite the meal
Stafford
- Stafford, L. D., & Dodd, H. Music and food: effects on consumption and preference — research summarised in Appetite and adjacent journals.
Cited in: Music while eating: how tempo, loudness, and tone rewrite the meal
Stephen
- Stephen Sondheim on poetry versus lyrics (Finishing the Hat) — The Sublime.
Cited in: Lyrics as literature: when the song earns the page
Stewart
- Stewart, J., Garrido, S., Hense, C., & McFerran, K. (2019). Music use for mood regulation: self-awareness and conscious listening choices in young people with tendencies to depression. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1199.
Cited in: How melancholic songs shape emotion and memory
Sting
- Sting — official biography and tour materials, sting.com.
Cited in: Sting in Vilnius: a case for adult intelligence in pop
Stratus
- Stratus — the system, the two Disklaviers, the sampled instrument — Spitfire Audio; the injury origin and Euclidean rhythms with Halldór Eldjárn — CDM.
Cited in: Ólafur Arnalds: feeling, engineered - Stratus and the anti-AI position (quotes) — NBC San Diego.
Cited in: Ólafur Arnalds: feeling, engineered
Stream-concentration
- Stream-concentration data (best-track share; ~75% of songs ≤5%) — StatSignificant; vinyl-as-collectible (the Glasgow study; variants) — Variety; Eilish on waste — Billboard.
Cited in: The album as one sustained argument
Sufjan
- Sufjan Stevens — artist page, Asthmatic Kitty.
Cited in: Cinematic acoustic pop: four artists who make the case for the category
Systematic
- Systematic reviews and evidence maps on meditation interventions across anxiety, depression, sleep, and well-being — Cochrane, JAMA Internal Medicine and adjacent venues.
Cited in: Music and meditation: attention, the body, and the limits of practice
Taruffi
- Taruffi, L., & Koelsch, S. (2014). The paradox of music-evoked sadness: an online survey. PLOS ONE, 9(10), e110490.
Cited in: How melancholic songs shape emotion and memory
The
- The Nobel citation and Sara Danius's oral-tradition defence — CNN; Dylan's Nobel lecture ("meant to be sung, not read") — NobelPrize.org.
Cited in: Lyrics as literature: when the song earns the page - The poetry of Sappho — survival, performance to the lyre — Wikipedia; Anne Carson, If Not, Winter — the bracketed gaps — Wikipedia.
Cited in: Lyrics as literature: when the song earns the page - The ♀ Ensemble, the Valerie Solanas piece's framing, and the 1970 New York Times essay — AWARE: Women Artists; the anti-domination rule — Macromip.
Cited in: Pauline Oliveros: listening as composition - The "Her Majesty" splice and the Abbey Road medley (with Kurlander's account) — Ultimate Classic Rock.
Cited in: The album as one sustained argument - The Una Corda, built by David Klavins — specifications and debut — CDM.
Cited in: Nils Frahm and the engineering of intimacy - The custom transformer console — Tape Op.
Cited in: Nils Frahm and the engineering of intimacy - The live rig and how he plays it — DJ Mag.
Cited in: Nils Frahm and the engineering of intimacy - The Innocence Mission — official site, theinnocencemission.com.
Cited in: The Innocence Mission: indie folk that thinks in a quieter sentence - The Innocence Mission interview, Big Takeover.
Cited in: The Innocence Mission: indie folk that thinks in a quieter sentence
Theodor
- Theodor Adorno, "On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening" (1938).
Cited in: On re-listening: how a song becomes yours
Theorell
- Theorell, T., & Bojner Horwitz, E. (2019). Emotional effects of live and recorded music in various audiences and listening situations. Medicines, 6(1), 16.
Cited in: Why live acoustic concerts move us so deeply
Three-level
- Three-level meta-analysis on music education and executive function in children — published systematic synthesis.
Cited in: Music and intelligence: what music actually trains, and what it doesn't
Tom
- Tom Waits's voice (Daniel Durchholz) — Wikipedia; the backlash, Jay-Z's "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" — Wikipedia).
Cited in: The grain of the voice: Barthes in the age of Auto-Tune
Tschacher
- Tschacher, W., Greenwood, S., Weining, C., Wald-Fuhrmann, M., Ramakrishnan, C., Seibert, C., & Tröndle, M. (2024). Physiological audience synchrony in classical concerts linked with listeners' experiences and attitudes. Scientific Reports, 14, 16412.
Cited in: Why live acoustic concerts move us so deeply - Tschacher, W., Greenwood, S., Ramakrishnan, S., Tröndle, M., Wald-Fuhrmann, M., Seibert, C., Weining, C., & Meier, D. (2023). Audience synchronies in live concerts illustrate the embodiment of music experience. Scientific Reports, 13, 14843.
Cited in: Why live acoustic concerts move us so deeply
UNESCO
- UNESCO — International Jazz Day framing of jazz as universal language.
Cited in: Jazz as an open method — improvisation, individuality, the room
US
- US vinyl in 2024 — RIAA 2024 Year-End Report; UK vinyl — Music Ally / BPI.
Cited in: The album as one sustained argument
Vinyl
- Vinyl sequencing constraints (side length, groove, the flip) — Performer.
Cited in: The album as one sustained argument
Vuoskoski
- Vuoskoski, J. K., & Eerola, T. (2017). The pleasure evoked by sad music is mediated by feelings of being moved. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 439.
Cited in: How melancholic songs shape emotion and memory
Vuust
- Vuust & Witek on prediction and musical pleasure — Frontiers in Psychology.
Cited in: On re-listening: how a song becomes yours
WHO
- WHO Regional Office for Europe — What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? (Fancourt & Finn, 2019).
Cited in: Nemiga ir noktiurnai: an album of carefully shaped silence - WHO Regional Office for Europe — What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? (Fancourt & Finn, 2019).
Cited in: Why music can make people fall in love (and stay there) - WHO Regional Office for Europe — What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? (Fancourt & Finn, 2019) — overview of >3,000 studies on arts engagement and wellbeing.
Cited in: Music and coffee: how sound rewrites the taste of a cup
Wacongne
- Wacongne, C., Changeux, J.-P., & Dehaene, S. A neuronal model of predictive coding accounting for the mismatch negativity. Foundations of omission-response work in predictive processing.
Cited in: Silence in music: why a pause is not emptiness
Western
- Western Sydney University — research on "couple-defining songs", researchers.westernsydney.edu.au.
Cited in: Why music can make people fall in love (and stay there)