Cultivating Creativity

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With Dottie Tosan' and David Eagleman at HomeAway's Product Academy
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"The Runaway Species" is being published in 14 countries. Now available in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, China, Germany, Greece, Italy, Korea, Romania, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, and Turkey.  Coming soon in Hungary.

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Amplifying the Anomaly

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Beethoven's Ninth and AI's Tenth

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Beethoven and Divergent Thinking

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Defining Creativity: A View from the Arts

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Blueprints for a Creative Classroom

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Music and Language: Milestones of Development

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Official selection of Texas State University's 2018/19 Common Reading Experience

Alabama School of Math and Science's first "ASMS Reads" Book

Basis of the documentary "The Creative Brain," 
hosted by David Eagleman 

Featured in TIME magazine's "The Science of Creativity," 
Nature, the Wall Street Journal, 
the Economist,  Harvard Business Review, Discover, Smithsonian.com, Wired.com,PsychologyToday.com, Behavioral Scientist, The Verge, TEDIdeas, Tech Nation, Innovation Hub, Big Picture Science,
Coast-to-Coast AM, Big Think, BBC Radio,
​American Scholar,​ The Chronicle of Higher Education, 
Times Higher Education, The Guardian Observer,
Literary Hub, Nautilus, LinkedIn, Education Week, Entrepreneur.com, Heleo, 52 Insights, Neo.life, 
Little Atoms,  The Monocle, My Quest for the Best,  Behind Greatness, InJoy, Daydreamers,  The Creationists, 
and at the Aspen Ideas Festival, South by Southwest,
The School of Life, the How To Academy,
and the Cheltenham Literature Festival  

“A lively exploration of the software our brains run in search of the mother lode of invention… "The Runaway Species" is beautifully produced, illustrated and written. It sweeps the reader through examples from engineering, science, product design, music and the visual arts to trace the roots of creative thinking."
—Nature

​"The book offers surprises and insights at every turn... Essential—and highly pleasurable—reading for anyone who cares about ideas and innovation."
--Kirkus starred review
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"Packed with vivid images, countless examples, and fun facts that will leave readers eager to discuss it with friends, this is a refreshing and thought-provoking book that captures both the wonder of science and the beauty of the human spirit.” —Booklist

"The book makes a single argument clearly and thoroughly:  creativity is never the creation of something from nothing...Approach(es) creativity scientifically but sensitively, feelings its roots without pulling them out."
- The Economist

"Both scientifically strong and accessible to the public...What's there is all worth reading...Chock full of well-chosen and interesting illustrations that greatly enhance the value of the narrative...Engaging and worthwhile."
-American Journal of Psychology

"An outstanding and inspirational volume...Electrifying and enlightening"
​ --In-Mind.org

"A paean to the ingenuity of the human species, a description of the anatomy of creativity and a rallying cry to cultivate our skills for the benefit of our collective future."  - TES.com

"A remarkable look at the intersection between our brain and creativity. Dynamic and educational, this beautifully illustrated book looks at the factors that inform our creative thoughts and inventive behaviour."--CultureFly

"Nobly designed, exquisitely illustrated and well-written book." -- Huffington Post Germany

"A welcome addition to a long hopeful history of human making"--Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

"The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World" is a collaboration with acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman, creator and host of the PBS series “The Brain,” and author of the non-fiction books “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain” and “Wednesday is Indigo Blue” and the work of fiction “Sum."   Weaving together science and the arts, the book illustrates how creativity is part of the software of every human brain and describes the cognitive mechanisms by which the brain remodels prior experience to produce novel ideas.  The book explores key ingredients of a creative mentality and offers suggestions for cultivating creativity in the boardroom and classroom.  "The Runaway Species" is being published jointly by Catapult (US) and Canongate (UK), and by international houses in Brazil, China, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Romania, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, and Turkey.
"From Brains to Music: A Multi-Faceted Discussion with Dr. Anthony Brandt," from an interview with Carmen Richardson of the Deep-Play
Research Group

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Music and Early Language Acquisition 

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Above: What Time Is It? installation in Market Square, Houston.










Left: Tony with composer Chapman Welch and artist Jo Ann Fleischhauer in front of their installation What Time Is It? in Market Square, Houston.

Collaborations with artist Jo Ann Fleishhauer and composer Chapman Welch

Commissioned by the Blaffer Art Gallery and Houston Downtown District, What Time Is It?  was an installation on display in Houston’s Market Square from September 2013 until March 2014.  Artist Jo Ann Fleischhauer reimagined the square’s historic clock tower while composer Chapman Welch and I created computer music to take the place of the tolling of the bell.

Rather than tolling like a traditional clock-tower, the musical installation told the time by a gradual progression of chords, one per hour, that rose and set over the course of the day like the sun.  Each chord sounded for three minutes, beginning slightly before the hour and ending slightly after. The cycle of chords repeated each day, so that over time, someone who frequented the square might be able to tell the time musically.  On top of each chord, a computer hidden in the Clock Tower improvised using an array of ringing sounds, making each hourly tolling a unique performance.  The sound source of both the underlying chords and ringing improvisations was Market Square itself—recorded street noise—which was filtered into pure tones.   The installation was entirely automated: once set in motion, the computer ran the performances on its own.


We followed that up with The Library of Babble, part of a curated exhibition at the Silos at Sawyer Yards as part of Houston Sculpture Month.  Chapman and I created a sound collage based on the international phonetic alphabet to complement Jo Ann's installation, which was constructed inside of a converted grain silo. Here is a video created by Obed McCalip: