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The doorbell: the secret personality of sounds
Listening and Production: The same note can feel round, harsh, bright, fragile, metallic, or intimate. What allows us to recognize this difference is called timbre: the quality that gives a note its identity...
Binaural Waves: Brain Hacking, Neuroscience and the Limit of the Placebo
Binaural beats are one of the most curious phenomena in acoustics and neuroscience: two pure tones with subtly different frequencies, presented separately to each ear, trick the brain...
Algorithmic composition and the Lucid Rhythms case
When most people hear the term "algorithmic music," they usually imagine one of two things: either a computer generating random, impersonal notes, or a programmer writing thousands of lines of...
Musical Scales of the World: Correspondences and Cultural Dimensions
Comparative music theory reveals that the concept of scale is not a mere homogeneous mathematical abstraction, but a dynamic reflection of the aesthetic, cosmological, and liturgical philosophies of civilizations....
