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Hip hop music teaches children to recognize stroke and act quickly, study finds
Music can save lives, too.
LSD changes the way the brain reacts to music, study finds
Just imagine a music therapy session spiced up with some psychedelics.
Jymmin combines working out with music, makes people feel less pain
Scientists paired music composition software with sensors attached to the fitness machines.
Surprising harmonic structure might be the secret to writing a pop hit, new study finds
People love surprises and music is no exception.
Robots could soon write emotional or motivating songs
Inserting feelings into Artificial Intelligence music — the future is kinda happening already.
Study looks at what makes some song stick in your head, while others don’t
Don’t read this if you’re not in the mood to sing to yourself. Seriously.
Some birds play tunes not all that different from jazz musicians
Humans were by no means the first to evolve musicality.
This is the first pop song written by an A.I. and it sounds a lot like The Beatles
You can dance to it. Who said robots were boring?
These are the most metal words in the English language, data scientist says
Rock on, brothers.
Musical horns reveal 2,000 year old cultural ties between Europe and India
An archeologist studying Irish iron-age musical horns has found a very surprising correspondent of the ancient musical arts in Europe: these artistic practices, long considered to be dead, are still alive and well in south India.
Theremin: the electronic instrument you play without touching anything
The theremin is a unique musical instrument which involves two antennas and which you can play with your bare hands, without touching anything. We’ll talk about its history, the working principle and how you can play/build your own.
Eerie musical instruments played by the wind from around the world
A wind or Aeolian harp is exactly what the name implies: the only musical instrument played by the wind.
This is the oldest song in history: a 3,400-year-old hymn
Music etched in clay tablets more than 3,400 years ago in Syria was recorded. This is the oldest song thus far, researchers say.
One of Mozart’s lost compositions discovered after 230 years
A four-minute cantata was found among the the mountains of archives in the Czech Museum of Music in November 2015. The score was likely written in 1785 by the maestro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, along with Antonio Salieri, popularly considered a rival, and an unknown composer called Cornetti. The find was made after Timo Jouko Herrmann, a German composer, was browsing the museum’s online library and
Life without music – study looks at brain with amusia
For most people listening to music or playing an instrument is a great way to relax, unwind, have fun, and express themselves. But not everybody is able to perceive, appreciate or memorize music, to sing or to dance. Monica is one such person, and to her, any kind of music is just a bunch of noise that makes her head ache and feel stressed.
This 3D-printed Stradivarius inspired violin sounds gorgeous
A French company called 3Dvarius partnered with musician Laurent Bernadac to see just how far they could stretch 3D printing capabilities. Why not, they thought, stretch the strings of a fully playable 3D-printed violin? Combing the leading craftsmanship of the past two centuries with the cutting edge tech of today, the engineers designed an electric violin based on the legendary Stradivarius.
The sounds of Earth – listen to the Golden Records we sent in space on the 1977 Voyager mission
The Golden Records were the recordings NASA sent into space to represent our planet’s life and culture, ranging from the sound of rain to samples of Beethoven and Mozart, Chucky Berry and Blind Willie Johnson.
Scientists create the perfect music for cats
We all know how therapeutic and soothing (or on the contrary, motivating) music can be; and we all know that different people like different types of music… so it seems safe to say that different animals also like different types of music. Now, a joint team of scientists and musicians believe they found how to compose the purr-fect music for animals, including monkeys and cats.
Why Stradivarius violins sound so good. Hint: It’s the f-shape
In the 18th century, violin craftsmanship reached its peak in what came to be known as the Cremonese period — he golden age of violinmaking. During this age, Italian families like Amati, Stradivari, and Guarneri were on high request to deliver the finest violins, meant to be played in the finest concert halls of Europe. Whether the old masters employed a scientific method to their manufacturing process to churn out the best possible sound is still debatable, but what’s certain is that string instruments have gone a long away in terms of acoustic efficiency since the middle ages when the lute or oud dominated courthouses. So, what gives these top-notch violins, like Stradivarius, their signature, powerful sound? According to a team of MIT engineers and violinmakers at the North Bennet Street School in Boston they key to a violin’s sound is the shape and length of its “f-holes,” the f-shaped openings through which air escapes.