Why do humans love music and how do we get such pleasure from listening to and making music? Every known human civilisation has discovered music: why? Is there an evolutionary reason, is it purely for pleasure, is there a reason why we all like different music? The oldest known musical instrument is from the Stone Age – what did the cavemen use music for? And does this translate into our modern-day love of music; why do we still need music and is it good for us to listen to music whilst we work, drive or study? This is a fun and practical talk about music and the theories about why we love it so much!

This talk could be an after-dinner speech or a more informal workshop style talk.