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Fugues

By: Gabriel Berezin
  • Summary

  • What is Fugues? The quick answer - it’s The Moth with neuroscience and music (and a bit of sci-fi...) The detailed answer - a fugue, conventionally, is: (1) a piece of music with multiple melodies played at the same time and... (2) a trance state where a person experiences amnesia, and loses their sense of self. Both uses of the word have a beginning, middle and end. Taking a bit of license, each story we tell in this podcast will be called a fugue. And each fugue will illustrate a handful of mental ingredients. A fugue will also refer to any temporary mental state one is in. For example, you are currently in a podcast description-reading fugue. Hosted by Gabriel Berezin, some fugues will be autobiographical, others will come from special guests, and others may be...science-fictional. Episodes 1, 2, and 5 are great places to start!
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Episodes
  • An Asshole Walks Into a Group Meditation | 3
    Oct 27 2022

    The Reveal. 

    Find out how this Mediclub experience ends.

    The Assholes push the outer limits of the ASS scale. (What geminis!)

    They stumble on unexpected terrain, questioning the very nature of reality.

    This is Part 3 of 3.

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    Credits:

    Written and produced by Gabriel Berezin.

    Original music by Santiago Arias-Rozo.

    Opening and closing music by Monuments (featuring Grant Zubritsky (bass), Robby Sinclair (drums) and Bryan Murray (saxophone), Gabriel Berezin (guitar)) 

    Script editing and voiceover by Melissa "Monty" Montan 

    Logo design by Justin Montan

    Follow Fugues on Twitter and Instagram.

    References:

    • Does the Multiverse Exist?
    • 4-7-8 Breathing Technique
    • Study about why certain people are gullible
    • English to Ned Flanders translator
    • Jesse Isreal
    • Mediclub
    • The Big Quiet
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    24 mins
  • An Asshole Walks Into a Group Meditation | 2
    Oct 20 2022

    In part 2 of Assholes, the immersive story of the Mediclub experience continues with three more fugues.

    The Asshole co-hosts review the similarities between meditation, marijuana and the right hemisphere of your brain.

    Then you'll see if 12-step programs fit or (don't fit) into the event.

    Most importantly you'll find out what Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” has to do with the most under-appreciated part of your brain.

    All culminating in a new and surprising ASS score.

    See how deep these assholes go!

    This is part 2 of 3.

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    Credits:

    Written and produced by Gabriel Berezin

    Original music by Santiago Arias-Rozo

    Opening and closing music by Monuments (featuring Grant Zubritsky (bass), Robby Sinclair (drums) and Bryan Murray (saxophone), Gabriel Berezin (guitar)) 

    Script editing by Melissa "Monty" Montan 

    Logo design by Justin Montan

    Follow Fugues on Twitter and Instagram

    References:

    • Jill Bolte Taylor TED talk - “My Stroke of Insight”
    • Weed and mindfulness, being present
    • Carl Sagan on THC and brain hemispheres
    • The history of 12 step programs
    • Synchrony creates social bonds (Scientific American)
    • Your (Tiny Dancer) Cerebellum
    • More on cerebellum anatomy and function
    • Private Dancer (Tina Turner)
    • Tiny Dancer (Elton John)
    • Audience choir from Jacob Collier
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    30 mins
  • An Asshole Walks Into a Group Meditation | 1
    Oct 11 2022

    Ever been to a group meditation? How did you feel? Third eye open and a blissful permagrin? Or awkward and self conscious?

    Fugues is back with a new talk show that measures gullibility and skepticism using a powerful scale. This new spectrum is defined by Larry David, Woody Harrelson, Betty White, Bill Murray and cats (not the musical).

    Gabe and his Inner voice co-host discuss the neurological and psychological mental phenomena activated during a Brooklyn meditation retreat.

    Find out what a Burger King Whopper has to do with our experience of time, and why getting picked last on the dodgeball court explains our cultural divide.

    This is Part 1 of a 3-part series.

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    Written and produced by Gabriel Berezin

    Original music by Santiago Arias-Rozo

    Opening and closing music by Monuments (featuring Grant Zubritsky (bass), Robby Sinclair (drums) and Bryan Murray (saxophone), Gabriel Berezin (guitar)) 

    Script editing by Melissa "Monty" Montan 

    Logo design by Justin Montan

    Follow Fugues on Twitter and Instagram

    References:

    • Thinking about the Future (aka prospection)
    • We aren’t meant to live in the moment (NYT)
    • Guru podcast
    • James Arthur Ray back at it
    • Oprah doesn’t have a great track record on picking gurus (just saying)
    • Physical pain and social rejection study
    • Mediclub
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    24 mins

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