
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain CD listening has been replaced by music streaming.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 […]

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 […]