Anna Fiveash receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Listening to music can enhance our lives in all kinds of ways – many of us use it during exercise, to regulate our mood, or in the ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. The 19th-century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer believed that the truth about life is largely ...

“What is music?” my friend asked me. I explained how we, as humans, instinctively react to music by moving our bodies in weird ways, just dancing, and that’s universally understood. I thought that was ...