Music
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Your Brain Is Like Beethoven
We survive noise by transforming it into patterns, like composers create music. -
What Makes Music Universal
Music brings us together to show us how different we are. -
We’re More of Ourselves When We’re in Tune with Others
Music reminds us why going solo goes against our better nature. -
What Makes Music Special to Us?
Clarifying the differences between what animals and humans hear. -
Why A.I. Is Just Not Funny
Although A.I. robots can pick up on jokes, they have a lot to learn about telling them.Queen Mary University of London / YouTube Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In the 2004 film I, Robot, Detective Del Spooner asks an A.I. named Sonny: “Can a robot write a symphony? […]
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Is Multilingual Rap Eroding Canada’s French Language?
Recently a Quebec arts foundation required the Francophone rap group Dead Obies to give back an $18,000 grant they’d been awarded to record their newest album. The problem? A word count determined that the group had stirred too much English into their distinctive multilingual lyrics, falling short of the rule that 70 percent of the […]
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When You Listen to Music, You’re Never Alone
Technology hasn’t diminished the social quality of listening to music.
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Some Music Is Inherently Bad—But People Can Be Convinced Otherwise
Artistic appreciation is a deeply subjective process, perhaps the most essentially personal thing that humans do. But are there some explanations for why we like what we do? Why, for instance, does a particular song get popular? Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Some of it has to do […]
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How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music
I wanted to build the ideal collaborator. Was I ever surprised.
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How the Obits Became My Muse
The unusual lives of a physicist and an aviator, in verse and song. -
The Necessity of Musical Hallucinations
That song stuck in your head is your brain doing its work. -
Ingenious: Vijay Iyer
On the science and talent of music. -
Rhythm’s the Thing
Pianist Vijay Iyer gives us a master class in the science of rhythm. -
Scientists Create Cybernetic Links Between People—by DJing
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . DJ Angst kicked off the late-February show at the Root Cellar Lounge in Bloomington, Indiana, keeping in mind that, as the first DJ to play, it was his job to figure out what would lure people to the dance floor. As his […]