Intersections of Sound Technology, Music Cognition, Sound Healing, and Music Therapy
Just 13% of those composing music for screen are women, according to membership figures from APRA AMCOS, the organisation that looks after copyright for songwriters, composers and music publishers in Australia. Female screen composers sit at the intersection of two industries – music and film – that have both been recognised as being male-dominated. To […]
Read Full ArticleCIRMMT Distinguished Lectures in the Science and Technology of Music Dan Gauger, BOSE, USA 20 April 2017 – Tanna Schulich Hall This video was originally published on CIRMMTvideo. View original on YouTube.
Read Full ArticleA mechanized extra thumb would fit right into our oncoming bizarro cyberpunk future. Dani Clode created a prototype of the Third Thumb for her graduate work at the Royal College of Art, as seen in this video from the design-focused website Dezeen. The bonus digit is powered by a motor worn on the wrist and […]
Read Full ArticleFor many, music is a unifier—an art form that brings people together and allows us to connect over shared emotions. But what if you couldn’t hear the lyrics or rhythms that add meaning to our lives? Enter Myles de Bastion and his Audiolux visualization system. Though he now identifies as Deaf, the Portland-based artist and […]
Read Full ArticleIt’s that time of year again. British hopes and dreams weigh once again on one shy Scotsman’s shoulders. Expectant tennis fans will throng together on Murray Mound to eat strawberries and cream and talk up their hero’s chances. Can he do it again? Is he mentally prepared for the challenge? New research into the noises […]
Read Full ArticleThe electric guitar symbolizes rebellion, freedom, excess and youth. But with the classic rock period well behind us, is it in danger of becoming a faded relic? The Washington Post recently reported on declining sales in the American electric guitar industry, with some manufacturers expressing concerns about its future. One reason for this was said […]
Read Full ArticleLong before Drake and Bieber, the CanCon radio quotas allowed for groups like b4–4, Prozzäk, and the Moffatts to thrive up North. Um, wait … who? Prepare to cringe. I am really sorry, but I need to begin by doing something terribly un-Canadian: bragging. You’re welcome, America. For decades, you’ve been the leading beneficiary of my homeland’s […]
Read Full ArticleBecause who needs orchestral music when you can listen to a train singing as it embarks on its path? This article was originally published on digg.com. See the original post.
Read Full ArticleHow do we learn to write? Associate Professor NONAKA Tetsushi (Kobe University Graduate School of Human Development and Environment) looked at the development of writing skills in Japanese first-grade students learning the hiragana script. By quantifying their pen movements, he revealed the process of learning distinct temporal patterns of movement in such a way to […]
Read Full ArticleRead her lips: Britney Spears is pissed and she wants credit. In a recent interview that ran on Israeli TV, the pop diva decried those who accuse her of lip-syncing. “A lot of people think that I don’t sing live,” Spears said. “Because I’m dancing so much I do have a little bit of playback, […]
Read Full ArticleAre Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive? An Exercise in Language Compression Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive? By Colin Morris In 1977, the great computer scientist Donald Knuth published a paper called The Complexity of Songs, which is basically one long joke about the repetitive lyrics of newfangled music (example quote: “the advent of modern […]
Read Full ArticleWe’re all familiar with Pomp & Circumstance, the graduation song that’s the official soundtrack of almost every commencement. But how did it get so big? In this episode of Vox’s Almanac, Phil Edwards investigates and finds diamonds, war, and Dame Clara Butt. This video was originally published on Vox. View original on YouTube.
Read Full ArticleAn invasive lionfish in the Bahamas. Photo by Mark Albins. Ok, well maybe more like grunt or drum. Still, this recording comes from the first study to document that lionfishes—the invasive, venomous scourges of the Atlantic and Mediterranean—make sounds. http://christiewilcox.com/lionfish_roar.wav Many fish species use noise to communicate—so many, in fact, that their sounds can create a morning chorus […]
Read Full Article(Full English subtitles are available for this talk — click the CC button in the bottom right of your screen to turn subtitles on.) One night in 2002, a friend gave Jorge Drexler the chorus to a song and challenged him to write the rest of it using a complex, poetic form known as the […]
Read Full ArticleUltrasound can do a whole lot more than create images of unborn babies. Since it first became a near-indispensable medical tool in the 1930s, technology that produces sound waves so high-pitched that humans can’t hear them has found use in almost every branch of industry. The vibrations it creates can kill bacteria, weld plastics and […]
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