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Music evokes powerful positive emotions through personal memories
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- Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Music is known to evoke emotions through a range of mechanisms. A new study gives insights into the way positive emotional reactions can be triggered by music and pictures.
Music researchers have come up with a formula for the perfect Christmas Number 1
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- Tuesday, 11 December 2018
A team of music experts have come up with what they believe is the perfect formula for a sure-fire Christmas Number 1.
How To Make An Audience Feel Nostalgic Using Music
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- Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Nostalgia can be a powerful tool for artists to harness, particularly when it comes to marketing to adults, and while directly copying music from their childhood by be legally suspect, there are a number of other ways to use elements from their past to evoke musical nostalgia.
Music and memory
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- Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Can you recite the lyrics of a song from years ago but can’t remember where you put your keys?
Comment photographier la musique ?
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- Sunday, 09 December 2018
Au premier abord, la photographie et la musique peuvent sembler incompatible, figer visuellement un moment de créativité sonore.
Music while coding? Science says pump up the jams
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- Tuesday, 27 November 2018
Need some help entering the zone? Listening to music while programming is scientifically proven to help out productivity and raise happiness. What are programmers listening to while they work, and what do you tune into?
Mobile disco: how phones make music inescapable
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- Tuesday, 27 November 2018
Annoyed by music blaring out of tinny mobile phone speakers? You're showing your age.
What is the Fibonacci Sequence – and why is it the secret to musical greatness?
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- Monday, 26 November 2018
Geniuses from Mozart to Leonardo da Vinci have used the Fibonacci Sequence. But what is it and why does it make great music?
Don't look back in anger: did Britpop cause Brexit?
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- Monday, 26 November 2018
It’s a thesis doing the rounds – and is full of holes. But there’s no denying that Britpop’s nostalgia did make flag-waving nationalism more acceptable.
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