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Ecouter de la musique sur son smartphone au travail peut vous coûter cher
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- Tuesday, 19 September 2017
La Sabam a réagi, lundi, à l’annonce, samedi, par certains médias du fait que la Société belge des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique réclamait 443 euros à l’employé d’une société d’installation de systèmes d’alarme de Farciennes, qui avait écouté de la musique sur son smartphone.
Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice?
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- Tuesday, 22 August 2017
More and more singers are cancelling big shows and turning to surgery to fix their damaged vocal cords. But is the problem actually down to the way they sing?
The Best Seat in the Concert Hall
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- Tuesday, 22 August 2017
A concert hall can have thousands of seats. Prices can range from affordable to exorbitant. So where are the best seats with respect to sound? Is more expensive always better?
Why 10 minutes of silence has climbed iTunes charts
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- Tuesday, 22 August 2017
Samir Mezrahi’s silent track solves the problem of the same song playing each time a phone is plugged into a car.
Leonardo da Vinci's forgotten musical invention has been created for the first time
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- Tuesday, 22 August 2017
The viola organista was dreamt up by Leonardo da Vinci but until recently it had never been built. Now, a Polish instrument-maker has painstakingly created the first ever example and it sounds remarkable.
Pourquoi une musique donne-t-elle le frisson ?
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- Tuesday, 22 August 2017
Activation du centre du plaisir et des émotions, libération de dopamine... la musique entraîne toutes sortes de réactions dans notre corps.
How Do Music and Poetry Become Expressive?
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- Tuesday, 08 August 2017
Music and poetry share a capacity to make their audience feel things. How do they do it? Do the same cognitive mechanisms play a role in both art forms?
Mapping the Sounds of Political Protest Around the World
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- Tuesday, 08 August 2017
A new project is collecting recordings of public activism going back to 1991.
Here’s What Music Surgeons Are Listening To In The Operating Room
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- Tuesday, 08 August 2017
If you’ve ever wondered what surgeons are listening to while you’re going under the knife, all has now been revealed, because Spotify have released figures on the types of music commonly listened to during in the operating room.
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