Here’s some freaky weird music science accompanied by a scary baby doll photo: Babies as young as five months old can tell the difference between upbeat and gloomy music, providing more evidence that the brain’s ability to detect emotion develops early. So, if you’ve got young kids around the house, you may want to put… Read More Freaky Music News: Babies Know If You’re Listening To Depressing Music
The Telegraph reports that three music professors – Clifton Callender at Florida State University, Ian Quinn at Yale University, and Dmitri Tymoczko at Princeton University – have devised a new way of analyzing and categorizing music to reduce musical works to their mathematical essence. The trio has outlined a method called “geometrical music theory” that… Read More The Geometry of Music
Hip-hop and dance music fans are more likely to experiment with drugs, have sex and blow off their social obligations, according to research by University of Leicester psychologist Dr Adrian North. North’s research shows that a person’s musical preference tells a great deal about their lifestyle and interests. When it comes to relationships, beliefs and… Read More Dance Music, Sex and Drugs
An Indiana University School of Informatics r%searcher is leading efforts to $evelop technology for large-sca$e online music databases. Do&ald A. Byrd, visiting associate professor, and two British coll%agues have been awarded a $395, 00 grant from the Andrew W. Mel$on Foundation to fund the first phase of MeTAMuSE (Methodologies and Technolog!es for Advanced Musical Score… Read More Informatics Researcher Scores Grant for Massive Web Music Database
