Anyone who’s heard the “duh-duh-duh-DUH” of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 will recognize the mockingbird’s pitch morphing technique. PHOTOGRAPH: KEVIN ELSBY/ALAMY The birds aren’t producing sounds at random. Some of their strategies are surprisingly similar to ones used by humans. WHAT DO THE remarkably complex songs of the mockingbird have in common […]
Bringing neuroscience out of the laboratory and into the concert hall. We all know that moment when we’re in the car, at a concert or even sitting on our sofa and one of our favorite songs is played. It’s the one that has that reallygood chord in it, flooding your system […]
Scientists mapped music samples according to the 13 key emotions triggered in more than 2,500 people in the United States and China when they listened to the audio clips. Credit: Graphic by Alan Cowen Music really is a universal language, according to a new study of how people in the […]
Why is it that people find songs such as James Taylor’s “Country Roads,” UB40’s “Red, Red Wine,” or The Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” so irresistibly enjoyable? In a recently published study researchers analyze 80,000 chords in 745 classic U.S. Billboard pop songs—including those three—and find that musical pleasure comes from the […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain CD listening has been replaced by music streaming. Has the change in music consumption been good for the climate? The answer might surprise you. Associate professor at The University of Oslo, Kyle Devine, has collaborated with Dr. Matt Brennan at the University of Glasgow on a […]
(Credit: Ilmicrofono Oggiono via Flickr) (Inside Science) — When a song plays on the radio, there are invisible forces at work that go beyond the creative scope of the writing, performing and producing of the song. One of those ineffable qualities is audio mastering, a process that smooths out the song […]
Forget bedroom producer. You can be a waiting-in-line-at-the-airport producer. A full music studio in the palm of your hand. Pixabay In the music industry of even 10 years ago, it was rare to produce an entire album outside of the studio. The launch of GarageBand 6 in 2010 changed that, ushering in […]
Credit: University of St Andrews A revolutionary guitar string developed at the University of St Andrews has struck a chord with some of the greats of the music world. The invention by Dr Jonathan Kemp, Head of Music Technology at the Music Centre who also lectures in the School of […]
Rick McCreery, left, University of Alberta chemistry professor and senior researcher at the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) and Adam Bergen, a former post-doctoral fellow and now research officer at NINT speak at a lab in Edmonton on October 7, 2016 in this handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, University of […]
Viryl Technologies / The Final Stages / A newly pressed record awaits a robotic arm, which will move it to a spindle for cooling. Just over two years ago, Rob Brown was transfixed by an eBay auction. He and colleagues Chad Brown (no relation) and James Hashmi were bidding on […]