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Pardis Sabeti, assistant professor at Harvard University and musician, talks about how she became the lead singer of her band Thousand Days. She also talks about how music and science co-exist in her life.

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Pardis Sabeti Combines Music and Science I had never really played music growing up very much, so I mean I play the little short stint of piano as a child sets some basic serve notes and cords and things like that. Some basic information but it was very short it was between moves and my family and so I didn’t play for very long but I have some basic information and I always just really liked, liked music a lot, so all growing up I’d just listen to music all the time. I started with probably we got started with the Michael Jackson and all that kind of stuff that you would listen to growing up in the 80’s but then I remember I think I picked up New Order around 1997 or it was substance and that changed my world. I was just like listening to it in the car somewhere and I would ran out and bought it and got really in to sort of alternative music. From an early age I began listening to that. So I’ve always been very music obsessed and for most of the periods in my life I’m working really hard at work I have like an album that’s very connected to it, so finishing my page 2 is like 9 Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine. There’s always just like an album that was playing is centered around my life centered around work I mean Slow Coughing, what was there well so there’s actually I’m not gonna forget the names of still Slow Coughing albums but there’s a lot of Slow Coughing that happened through a lot of my test in college. And there was Bush, we are the still one with Serene and all that 16 stone that I think was during another period of like hard work. There was, yeah there was music always there’s like Radio Head and all those kinds of different bands and a lot of real lesser known like Indie rock bands like now probably Jealous sound and Fright AND Rabbit which will probably be very known soon or rock my world and help me through a grant application. I mean say like I think it’s like each grant application I can kind go through it you know make a little journal but it’s like each kind of major application or test I’ve Fisher Spinner for my boards in medical school boards, so yes, I have a lot of albums and I just but I was listening to music and I don’t know caused my obsession and so that’s along hind rant on my obsession with music. But so always like music but I never really I just consider it something that I spectate that like I did sports I did school activities like leadership activities I did school and that’s what you do and then I just listen to music. And it wasn’t until graduate school where I have 2 friends Taylor Antrum and Bruce Hicky who were also Americans studying at oxford and they would always talk about like. They both play guitar they both love we love the same music. We also can sing music Modest Mouse and all the time that these different fancy loved and you know and I always and they always talk about starting a band they kind of fantasy band all the time and I was like stop fantasy banding, just start a band like you know now is a good time as any. And they said what we at least need a rhythm section I didn’t really know what that meant, at that point I was like what was that and what is that and you know a new drums I guess and they’re like well we at least need a bassist and so that next day Bruce and I went out and thought a base guitar and we started the band. And we just started writing right away we never did any covers because I think we would have made that cover sound so bad but we just did the only original stuff that we and it’s like spare short period we just gigged out all the time like around oxford and stuff and we’re crazy with it. Yeah I’m still playing, I’m playing since that I would, that would have been have been like 1997, so we’re playing for a decade probably on and off but I started—I joined the band in medical school that I’ve been with ever since. It probably a release, I can’t really say it’s integrated I think it’ll be I don’t really wanted to be integrated, I think it would be bad if it was certain like I don’t know. I think it’s a different thing it comes together it definitely get a sense that one and most creative scientifically is when I start a guy I told them my graduates recently because I was you know thinking about all this projects and developing projects and reading a lot. Scientifically and trying to explore new areas and I told her that I have realized that I was actually In a good place when like three songs just spit out of no where and I, you know my I can tell my brain is like in one of the active creative places one of random like melodies pop out so—.