A 4-Track Mind

RadioLab’s mind-blowing piece on ragtime pianist Bob Milne:

In this short, a neurologist issues a dare to a ragtime piano player and a famous conductor. When the two men face off in an fMRI machine, the challenge is so unimaginably difficult that one man instantly gives up. But the other achieves a musical feat that ought to be impossible.

Absolutely worth the 20 minute listen.