Music:
Over the last two months, Nature has published a series of essays about the latest scientific research into music, and now that the series is complete, it has been made available as a free PDF.Among the authors of the essays...
Posted on July 7, 2008 8:39 AM • 1 Comments •
Here's some superb old footage of the legendary Syrian musician Farid al-Atrash giving a virtuoso performance on the oud....
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Posted on June 21, 2008 1:40 PM • 2 Comments •
This cartoon, found at Paleo-Future, accompanied a short article from the August 28th, 1949 edition of the San Antonio Light: CHICAGO, Aug. 27 - (AP) - Some day composers won't write music, and musicians won't play it - yet...
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Posted on June 19, 2008 5:33 AM • 2 Comments •
My exams begin on Friday, so things are going to be pretty quite around here until around mid-May. I will post various bits and pieces over the next couple of weeks, but in the meantime, here are some interesting links...
Posted on April 29, 2008 2:32 PM • 1 Comments •
This track, called Design Coding by The Poetic Prophet, has just been uploaded on YouTube. I thought it was hilarious the first time I saw it, and it's still very amusing on the fourth viewing. I'm not an expert on...
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Posted on March 30, 2008 11:01 AM • 2 Comments •
One shouldn't really need an excuse to embed this fantastic performance by Thelonious Monk, but now there is one: NIDCD researchers believe that they have identified the cognitive neural substrate of jazz improvisation. For the study, which is published...
Posted on February 28, 2008 8:40 AM • 11 Comments •
James Fung, a musician and computer engineer at the University of Toronto, has developed a program that can convert EEG recordings into music. Fung is involved in the Regenerative Brain Wave Music Project, which "explores new physiological interfaces for musical...
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Posted on November 3, 2007 4:14 PM • 4 Comments •
Here's another of my favourite bands - Funkadelic, playing I Got a Thing (1970). The perfect acoustic accompaniment to pink Cadillacs and full-length fur coats, this could well be the funkiest film footage ever recorded. (And that is a blue...
Posted on October 14, 2007 6:27 PM • 5 Comments •
One of my favourite bands, Radiohead, releases a new album called In Rainbows on October 15th. The album is not being distributed by a record label, but instead will be available exclusively as a digital download from the band's website....
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Posted on October 2, 2007 6:00 AM • 0 Comments •
I heard this being played by someone who was selling records and CDs in the street, next to a bar we went into last night. It's an old favourite of mine, from way back when hip hop was still...
Posted on August 19, 2007 7:09 PM • 0 Comments •
