What happens when rhythm enters the body before thought? In this episode of Resonances, Patricia Caicedo explores how music, rhythm, movement, and the brain are connected, drawing from her book We Are What We Listen To: The Impact of Music on Individual and Social Health.

From rhythmic entrainment and dance to neuroplasticity, embodied cognition, pleasure, memory, and Parkinson’s disease, this episode shows how music is not only something we hear, but something the body processes, responds to, and carries. Rhythm organizes movement, activates attention, shapes emotional experience, and reveals the deep relationship between music, health, and identity.

This episode also connects with the 2026 Barcelona Festival of Song, a research-based festival dedicated to Latin American and Iberian art song ...