The brilliant Oliver Sacks can be found in the July 23, 2007 issue of the New Yorker discussing the mysteries of musicophilia and, on a larger scale, music and the effects it has on the brain. Online, there is also a 10 minute audio MP3 where he's interviewed about just this topic by New Yorker staff writer Larissa MacFarquhar. Listen and be fascinated, read the article and be enlightened and, if you have time, read Sacks' other great books (there are many), including "Awakenings" of course (basis for the Robin Williams/Robert De Niro movie), "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and "An Anthropologist on Mars."
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