Beets, Article Music and Amensia

The article I chose is about the correlation between musical learning and memory. The article states that musical learning isn't stored in the same part of the brain as other memories. The article further reports specific cases where in the person affected by extreme memory loss, while they can't remember having learned the music, they can play it well. The story caught my attention, because these types of diseases and injuries that cause memory loss don’t get a lot of attention within the media. I feel it is important to try and raise people’s awareness about diseases and research having to do with mental health. Not to mention I’d like to find out how my grandmother can remember the lyrics to an entire country western song, but not where she put her keys. On that note, I want to combine images of musical notes and what one call "Fond memories" that can often be lost in these cases. I want to try and incorporate a skull into the workings as memory loss is a kind of “Living Death.” With the music, musical notes, or musical instruments tied in to show that it is a kind of life within living death. I have a couple of different ideas for pictures of items or persons I want to take. Such as an up close picture of a person that I can overlay a skull with, or of someone playing an instrument, possibly of only of pages of music. I want to imply hope within the image, while still having that darker scarier edge of the whole “Living Death” angle.


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