Music the artform and artists
Rough, smooth or deep: why the sound of a voice is multisensory
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- Tuesday, 28 November 2017
To make sense of human voices, we rely on senses beyond hearing. The songs of Taylor Swift can be sweet and soft. Lady Gaga’s singing feels dark. Johnny Cash’s voice was low and rough.
'The status quo will be obliterated!' – the inventors making their own musical instruments
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Hundreds of people are beavering away, hoping to create their own game-changing instrument – but most won’t sell a single one. Will any change the future of music?
Uganda: What Can Ugandan Music Tap From Congolese Music Journey?
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- Tuesday, 28 November 2017
In spite of an attempt to create an East African music identity, almost all pop-culture music and dances from East Africa still retain a lot of strokes and moves from Congo.
China: The new trend of village festivals
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- Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Lanting Royal Music Festival is exceptional, but not alone. It is one of the few examples of village festivals where the mission of a musical founder is met with the passion of a real estate developer.
Que sait-on de la place de la musique dans l’Antiquité ?
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- Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Réussit-on à déchiffrer les rares partitions fragmentaires grecques et mésopotamiennes qui nous sont parvenues ?
The Syrian DJ who invented Electro-Tarab
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Eldahr was born in Aleppo, a "traditional music city" as he puts it. At a young age, his uncle - a music shop owner at the time - exposed him to modern Western music which would immensely influence his own tunes.
Instrumental Instruments: MPC60
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Hip-hop as an art form didn’t come out of nowhere, and neither did its elements or its tools. Turntables existed before hip-hop, as did the mixer, the MC and rap itself.
The Beat Goes On: A Short History of the Metronome
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The musician sent home to practice with a metronome confronts in this prescription an absentminded chaperone. It sits on the stand and clucks a rigid beat regardless of whether the player, afflicted with an inability to keep a steady tempo, deigns to follow it.
The forgotten ancient Greek instrumen
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If you haven't heard this instrument before, don't panic, you're not alone.
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