Mastering Chaos Webcasts with Andrew Hodges

"There's a magic that happens when human beings come together to create music."

Music has advantages which permeate all aspects of human society, fostering the shared, structured experience of collaboration essential for group tasks, the practice of non-verbal communication and emotional depth serving as a catalyst for creativity, and modelling human leadership excellence across diverse cultural and professional challenges.

Andrew Hodges, in his extensive experience as violinist and teacher, has witnessed the unique way that human beings collaborate together to produce astonishing musical performances. As a business consultant he has experienced the incredible power of humans working together to solve highly complex problems.

Andrew has seen first hand how, despite their apparent differences, the worlds of music and work are deeply connected, as the discipline, collaborative listening, and iterative refinement required to play music mirror the essential skills needed for effective teamwork, problem-solving, and quality execution in any professional endeavour.

Our musical gifts are a testament to our human ability to collaborate and solve problems together. In a sense we could see these musical abilities as a set of Superpowers which are available to all of us humans but are sadly often underutilised outside the realm of music. These programmes are about people who enjoy music and perhaps even play a musical instrument who know there's something special about the gifts they have.

So if you like the thought of being challenged by some interesting ideas whilst listening to some enchanting music, just stick your earbuds in, start your run, or get the ironing board out, or start chopping the veg or just put your feet up and be ready to hear some new thoughts about music and what music has done for us humans.

In this latest webcast Andrew talks about “Bliss, Bubbles & Blindness," using music to illustrate the concept of human entrainment. This is part of a series of programmes to illustrate concepts from his book “Mastering Chaos: A Musician's Guide to Navigating Complexity”