High female vocals, people hate that - and I have a high female voice, obviously. But the most hated was, like, children's choirs - and I love children's choirs. And actually, the most loved type of music is deep women's vocals - so, Beyoncé and Adele and stuff, that makes sense. Like, there was a study that we read about when I was in class: They polled tons and tons of people and found out the most loved type of music and the most hated type of music. But it's not the same thing as making music, which is very gut-level. Because you can study music to death you can study the brain's response to music to death.
I don't know if it's actually that practically useful, honestly. My learning curve was maybe a tiny bit shorter than maybe someone who hadn't studied that stuff.įavorite Sessions Grimes: Building Beats From The Ground Up So by the time I actually started making music, I kind of had an understanding of frequencies and kind of how the brain responds to things, which I think really helped me as a producer: Even though I had no experience playing instruments and stuff, I kind of had a basic understanding of engineering. Grimes: Actually, I was in a program at McGill called Electroacoustics, where we studied a lot of how the brain interacts with music. Hear the radio version at the audio link, and read more of their conversation below.Īudie Cornish: I read that you actually studied neuroscience in college? Or just the sciences generally?
She spoke with NPR's Audie Cornish about the gender politics in music studios, the surprise perks of being a science major and why her favorite songs are those that deliberately unsettle the ear.
Grimes' latest release is Art Angels, on which Boucher not only wrote, produced and engineered all the songs, but masterminded the videos and artwork as well - no small feat given the crowded and male-dominated field of electronic music. When Claire Boucher, the Canadian electronic artist known as Grimes, first recorded a song, she was reluctantly helping out a friend who said he needed a "girl vocal." Half a decade later, Grimes is a marquee name at massive festivals like Coachella, and has three well-received albums under her belt - though she says she still feels as self-conscious as ever about her voice. Claire Boucher, aka Grimes, is currently touring behind her acclaimed third album, Art Angels.
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