Anthony Brandt is a Professor of Composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Anthony’s catalogue includes four chamber operas, as well as orchestral, chamber, vocal, theater, dance, and television scores. Anthony and neuroscientist David Eagleman co-authored The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World, which has been published in fourteen countries. He has written extensively about creativity and music cognition and is currently a co-investigator in pioneering studies involving music and mobile brain-body imaging.