News tagged with music composition

New software tool provides unprecedented searches of sound, from musical riffs to gunshots

Audio engineers have developed a novel artificial intelligence system for understanding and indexing sound, a unique tool for both finding and matching previously un-labeled audio files.

Technology / Software

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Pandora sings happy tune: IPO fetches $16 a share

(AP) -- Pandora Media Inc. sold its initial public offering of stock at $16 per share late Tuesday, fetching twice as much as the popular but unprofitable Internet radio service expected less than two weeks ago.

Technology / Business

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Music and speech based on human biology (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pair of studies by Duke University neuroscientists shows powerful new evidence of a deep biological link between human music and speech.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0




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Mario Bros creator Miyamoto wins top Spanish prize

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong and other hit video games, won a top Spanish prize Wednesday for "revolutionising" the industry.

Technology / Other

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

With Apple in, Dow would have set record long ago

(AP) -- Apple is the world's most valuable company. The Dow Jones industrial average is probably the world's best-known stock index. So don't they deserve each other?

Technology / Business

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 0

From spider webs to tangled proteins, researcher finds connections between mathematics, molecules and materials

If anyone were going to discover the connections between molecular structures, mathematical concepts and musical scores, it’s not surprising that Markus Buehler would be the one. He has built his career ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

At 10, GRACE continues defying, and defining, gravity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as the lead characters in the popular Broadway musical "Wicked" sing about defying gravity, the low-Earth orbiting twin spacecraft of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers find classical musical compositions adhere to power law

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers, led by Daniel Levitin of McGill University, has found after analyzing over two thousand pieces of classical music that span four hundred years of history, that virtually ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (22) | comments 31 | with audio podcast report

Intelligent software assigns appropriate background music for pictures

Previously, setting a picture or whole series of pictures to suitable music required expert knowledge and a great deal of time. Newly developed software called Picasso succeeds in arranging pictures with appropriate ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 31 | with audio podcast

Soundscape ecologists spawn new field

Geophony. Biophony. Anthrophony. Unfamiliar words. But they shouldn't be. We're surrounded by them morning, noon and night, say ecologist Bryan Pijanowski of Purdue University and colleagues.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rap music powers rhythmic action of medical sensor

(PhysOrg.com) -- The driving bass rhythm of rap music can be harnessed to power a new type of miniature medical sensor designed to be implanted in the body.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Violin and subatomic particle duet set to be performed at leading UK particle physics lab

One of the world’s leading physics laboratories is set to stage a unique musical duet between a violinist and radioactive subatomic particles later this month.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The faster-than-fast Fourier transform

The Fourier transform is one of the most fundamental concepts in the information sciences. It’s a method for representing an irregular signal — such as the voltage fluctuations in the wire that conne ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (30) | comments 20 | with audio podcast


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