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Why Is the Orchestra Seated That Way? An Explanation
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- Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Why don’t the oboes and tubas sit in the front of the orchestra? Why don’t flutes and first violins swap positions, or — in what would be the coolest configuration, let’s be honest — bass trombones and contrabassoons sit right up front with the conductor? Why is there even a conductor at all?
Your brain responses to music reveal if you're a musician or not
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- Tuesday, 23 January 2018
How your brain responds to music listening can reveal whether you have received musical training, according to new research.
When Does Speech Become Music?
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- Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Most of us instinctively know when someone’s singing and when they’re talking. But since music and speech are both just sounds, how do our brains tell them apart?
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.
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