aesthetics

Ben Crawford's exploring the edge of music and computers, and his background readings gave us a preliminary exploration of this emerging field. Perhaps the importance of music is best understood in relation to Andy Clark's the extended mind thesis. Normally, one can quite easily think of extending one's intellectual abilities out into the world, such as how everything from pencils and books to computer workstations extend our memory. Art, and in particular, music seems to allow us to extend our emotions into the world around us, allowing us to experience collective emotions?