Instru(mental)

About Instru(mental)

An applied music science podcast, hosted by a music therapist. Discover and appreciate the intricacies of musical behaviors, and how music functions in your life.

Publisher

Brea Murakami

Category

music · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 May 2018

Latest episode

2 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 23 episodes have a transcript.

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   2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #22 - Beautiful Motives, Better Person?

   Host Dr. Tanushree Agrawal explores how understanding the motives behind actions, like listening to music, shapes our judgments of a person's character in this interview.

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   4 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #21 - An MT-BC Goes to SMPC (2026)

   Music therapist Emily Wood, PhD candidate, shares insights from the Society for Music Perception and Cognition conference, exploring music cognition research and its applications.

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   19 Apr 2026

   #20 - This Is Your Musical Brain On Marijuana

   Have you ever noticed that music just hits differently when your high? In this episode of Instru(mental), we're diving into the surprisingly sparse, but curious body of research that explains how cannabis changes our musical experiences. Along the way, we'll touch on what mix of THC and CBD might enhance musical reward and what this might mean for clinicians working with people who listen to music under altered states of consciousness. Thank you to the sponsor of today's episode, Daniel Golds...

Inside a recent episode

#22 - Beautiful Motives, Better Person?

Published 2 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Mathematicians just actually think it's really beautiful how proofs work and how numbers work and stuff like that. I don't personally relate to that, but we're surrounded by academics. And then I kind of read up a lot of research on beauty and what fields people find beauty in. And we tried to put in as much as we could. We kind of just focused on specific domains. So we kind of had that math science one. We had one that was like the physical body. We had exercising and And that's a really big one where a lot of people do it for functional reasons, to lose weight or to be healthy. But there's actually a lot of people who just find running really kind of beautiful, where they're like, my body is doing this amazing thing, and this is cool. […]

Who has been a guest on Instru(mental)

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• Tanushree Agrawal
• Emily Wood
• Peter Martens

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

23 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

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