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Does Music Impair Creativity?
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- Tuesday, 12 November 2019
People who listen to music while they write may be doing more harm than good.
Comment créer une musique qui fait peur ?
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- Tuesday, 12 November 2019
La musique stridente de « Psychose», la tension croissante de « Les Dents de la Mer», le thème implacable de « Halloween » : les films d’horreurs possèdent une identité sonore incontournable. Mais comment créer une musique anxiogène qui nous donne la chair de poule ?
Why Everything Is Getting Louder
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- Tuesday, 29 October 2019
The earliest noise complaint in history also concerns a bad night’s sleep. The 4,000-year-old Epic of Gilgamesh recounts how one of the gods, unable to sleep through humanity’s racket and presumably a little cranky, opts “to exterminate mankind.”
Where should you sit for the best sound at an orchestra concert?
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- Tuesday, 29 October 2019
At $21, the cheapest seats in Heinz Hall, Downtown, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, are high up in the Gallery, high at the top of the balcony where the air is thin and the stage is but a distant splotch of color and motion. And believe it or not, these are also the best of the hall’s 2,675 seats.
What Makes Music Enjoyable? It’s Complex, But Measurable
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- Tuesday, 29 October 2019
What’s your favorite music? According to scientists, the song that you have on repeat is probably both predictable and unpredictable at the same time.
How scary music makes movies scarier
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- Tuesday, 29 October 2019
Imagine the 1973 horror movie "The Exorcist" without its ominous score. Would "Psycho" be the same without Bernard Herrmann's music? It's no surprise that a good scare and a good score go hand-in-hand.
Tendez l'oreille ! Est-il possible de surjouer en musique ?
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- Tuesday, 29 October 2019
Tout comme les acteurs qui surjouent, les musiciens peuvent tomber dans le dramatique à l'excès... mais au fond est-ce bien grave ? Petit panorama de ces musiciens, compositeurs et interprètes, qui en font trop, à grand renfort de fins de symphonies spectaculaires et de rubatos.
Game On: How Classical Music Helps Create the World of Online Role-Playing Games
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- Friday, 04 October 2019
Every day around the globe millions of people log on to compete in the most widely played video game on the planet — League of Legends — produced by the global giant, Riot Games.
Bathing in sound: Are didgeridoos and crystal bowls the next version of 'healing crystals'?
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- Friday, 04 October 2019
Some sound therapy practices involve didgeridoos — a tube-like Aboriginal instrument — gongs, therapy harps and tuning forks, while others use specially synthesized “binaural beats” to alter brain waves and reduce stress.
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