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Could chill-out music boost your post-workout recovery?
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- Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Many of us know that an upbeat playlist can help us power through a workout, but new research in the United Kingdom now suggests that what you listen to after your gym session could also boost post-exercise recovery.
Pourquoi vous mettre à la musique devrait être LA bonne résolution de l'année
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- Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Vous rêvez de vous lancer dans la pratique d'un instrument ou du chant, mais hésitez à franchir le pas ? Voici cinq arguments - science à l’appui - pour vous convaincre que la pratique musicale devrait être LA bonne résolution de l’année !
Listen to Alan Turing’s First Computer-Generated Christmas Carols
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- Tuesday, 09 January 2018
In 1951, the BBC played two carols from Turing’s computer, which have now been recreated by New Zealand researchers
Why listening to music could make you deaf
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- Tuesday, 09 January 2018
People are ignoring advice and permanently damaging their hearing while listening to loud music on headphones, an audiologist has warned.
********, ∆, †‡† ... the most unpronounceable band names ever
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- Tuesday, 09 January 2018
Whether it’s a marketing gimmick or a way to stop anyone ever talking about your band, musicians are rejecting random nouns in favour of punctuation and ancient languages
YouTube Video Containing Static Receives 5 Different Copyright Violations
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- Tuesday, 09 January 2018
If you thought YouTube’s copyright monitoring system was a joke, this latest episode will make you cry. Enter Sebastian Tomczak, a music technologist, professor and tinkerer who uploaded a 10-hour track of static, white noise onto YouTube.
Sónar Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary by attempting to contact alien life with music
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- Tuesday, 12 December 2017
The ambitious project titled “Sónar Calling GJ273b” is described as the first radio message ever sent to Luyten’s Star with the help of the EISCAT (European Incoherent SCATter Scientific Association) antenna in Norway.
The Incredible Sound of Making a Violin, It's All in the Details
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- Tuesday, 12 December 2017
As technology becomes a greater part of our lives and more jobs are lost to automation, it becomes all the more powerful to take a step back every so often and marvel at what can’t be lost.
Love it or hate it, Christmas music has a big impact on our health
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- Tuesday, 12 December 2017
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, or the worst depending, in part, on whether you’re a fan of Christmas songs.
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