Chasing the links for that Levitin interview yesterday, I found this call for volunteers in a musical experiment:
… Read the rest “Music Evolution: Science wants YOUR ears!”MacCullum’s computer program creates a randomly generated pair
Unlike all of the other selections cut-n-pasted here, this one I typed in by hand; that’s how much I wanted to share it. It’s from Tape Op, the free audio recordists’ magazine… Read the rest “The Brain in the Studio”
About two months ago, the BBC tells us, Scottish researchers used computer models to bring a lost medieval instrument back to life:
… Read the rest “Listen to the lituus.”Bach’s motet (a choral musical composition) “O
Normally I wouldn’t encourage this sort of thing, but NOVA has an interesting feature explaining how Autotune works.
On July 6, they’ll be posting answers to viewers’… Read the rest “Autotune explained.”
ScientificBlogging.com has a story that I’d suspect was an April Fools if this wasn’t the middle of summer. Supposedly, like our intelligent cousins to the seas, humans are… Read the rest “I see sounds.”
SONG: “This is the Sound” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Acoustic Black Hole Created in Bose-Einstein … Read the rest “SONG: This is the Sound.”
That sounds so totally metal, doesn’t it? Technology Review explains how to make a sound so heavy, no light can escape:
… Read the rest “A SONIC BLACK HOLE!”One of the many curious properties of Bose-Einstein Condensates
The BBC has video up of romancing mosquitoes creating their high, keening love songs:
… Read the rest “Love is… mosquitoes buzzing in harmony.”Males and females each have their own characteristic flight tone – which they create by beating
Musical mystery solved after 40 years! It took an obsessive mathematician to discover what the heck the Beatles were playing for the opening chord of “Hard Day’s Night”… Read the rest “The Beatles Knew All The Chords… Plus One.”
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