Music and Wellbeing: The Synchronization of Mind, Body, and Meaning

A Memory from 2001: When Music Expanded My World

It was a beautiful spring day in 2001. 

After delivering my paper, I was in a bookstore on Broadway in New York City, wandering—as philosophers often do—among shelves, ideas, and unexpected discoveries. 

There, by good coincidence, I came across an album whose title immediately arrested my attention: The Music of DNA by the macro-cosmic composer Susan Alexjander.

The phrase itself felt like a bridge between science and wonder. DNA—structure, code, biology—translated into music. 

I was intrigued. I purchased the album.