News tagged with musical rhythm

Can you keep up with the dance music that accelerates forever?

A scientist from Queen Mary has produced a dance track that sounds like it is accelerating forever.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Bird brains follow the beat: Capacity to move in time with music may be connected with ability to learn speech

Even though typical dance-floor activity might suggest otherwise, humans generally demonstrate a remarkable capacity to synchronize their body movements in response to auditory stimuli. But is this ability ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

'Rock Vibe' brings electronic music game to blind

Bridging a divide between sighted and blind gamers, University of California, Santa Cruz graduate Rupa Dhillon has created a version of the musical rhythm "Rock Band" game that everyone can play.

Technology / Software

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | 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

Get rhythm -- why the key to finding music you like is rhythm, not genre

So close and yet so wrong - you might love heavy metal like Metallica but your music platform suggests you should also like the Sixties sound of The Doors, simply because both bands are classified as rock.

Physics / General Physics

created May 20, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Hunting for rhythm's DNA: Computational geometry unlocks a musical phylogeny

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does Bo Diddley rule the world? Though he died last year, the iconic singer and guitarist of American blues and rock still rules the rhythms of the world, says computer scientist Godfried ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Intelligent DJ Emerges from Fundamental Research

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Austrian project has made the leap from research bench to shop shelf and is breathing musical intelligence into a digital audio system. This achievement has been made possible by a computer ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0