Category: Music
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Ancient tunes, relived…
That’s a good thing for Conner, who after completing a degree in music composition got deeply interested in Babylonian literature and poetry—which was originally recorded in cuneiform, wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets. But the words on the paper, the modern incarnations of these mineral etchings, were not enough for Conner. She wanted to know what…
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Quality in the Internet. Garbage in the Internet. The oppression of the (stupid) majority_
Search the Internet for quality content. Find music “mixes” which are just a concatenation of songs. With thousands of page-views. Find good mixes which took hours into the making. With a mere dozen of page-views. Say hello to the oppression of majority. Say good bye to quality. Meet the “Internet”.
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The sound of atoms… The sound of the universe…
What does an atom sound like? Apparently it’s a “D-note”. That’s according to scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, who have revealed in a new study that they’ve captured the sound of a single atom. “We have opened a new door into the quantum world by talking and listening to atoms,” study…
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Monkeys, music, ecology…
Research published today by the American Psychological Association has shown that chimpanzees prefer listening to West African akan and North Indian raga over listening to silence. What does this say about the evolutionary purpose of music? Previous work by McDermott and Hauser showed that when tamarins and marmosets were given a choice between a lullaby…
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fMRI, brain, creativity, scientific stupidity.
For the first time, neuroscientists have used fMRI scanners to track the brain activity of both experienced and novice writers as they sat down — or, in this case, lay down — to turn out a piece of fiction. The researchers, led by Martin Lotze of the University of Greifswald in Germany, observed a broad…
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