Music really IS ecstasy

Ecstasy spectrogram

I spent Sunday hanging out with the good musicians of CM Sounds, who showed us what the sitar and the sax could look like if you turned them into musical graphs. What they looked like, in fact, was Ecstasy, when you put it through a mass spectrometer. So many parallels between music and well-being…

(Originally published by Elizabeth Pisani on May 25, 2016)