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Dreams Of A ‘Global Jukebox’
Over his 70-year career, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax amassed thousands of sound recordings, piles of photographs, miles of film, and hours of videotape documenting traditional music and musicians from around the world. From his New York Times obituary (he died in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Lomax, cultural anthropology, ethomusicology, music
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Push Play, Feel Better
This week one of our favorite guests, neurologist Oliver Sacks, makes a return visit to Science Friday. He and our other guests will be talking about music therapy, and how it’s being used to to treat a variety of conditions … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, books, Interview, music, Radio Segments, Uncategorized
Tagged music, music therapy, Oliver Sacks
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X-rayed Singing
This clip shows what happens inside the body when we sing. The clip, from Swiss director Pierre-Yves Borgeaud’s 2002 film Inland, was created with the radiology department at the hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland. Inland is an abstract film about the … Continue reading
Bjork’s Latest Project: Biophilia
Icelandic musician Bjork has often been called “otherworldly.” Her latest creative project builds a whole new world of weird combining science, music, and technology. The songs on the album, Biophilia, draw inspiration from things like parasitic infections, Earth’s core, and … Continue reading
Infrared Theremin Turns Beams of Light Into Music
Fans of classic sci-fi movies (we’re safe in assuming there are at least a couple of you out there, right?) will know the theremin well. Among the earliest ventures into electronic music, the notoriously difficult to master instrument converts electrical … Continue reading
Happy Tau Day!
It may be INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY elsewhere on the Internet. Here, though, we’re celebrating Tau Day – because every number that helps us determine the circumference of things is due its fifteen minutes of fame. Mathematically speaking, tau (τ) … Continue reading
Building A Better Pop Star
It’s been said that stars are just like the rest of us. But Japan’s newest pop sensation, Aimi Eguchi, really isn’t like the rest of us. Check out this video of Eguchi. Notice anything strange? While the rest of us … Continue reading
Art at the Air and Space Museum
Over the last 50 years, NASA has invited artists such as Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol, and Annie Leibovitz to create work inspired by space exploration. A new exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum showcases that work and captures … Continue reading
Why Robots Should Dance
Singing, dancing robots range from the charming to the inept to the creepy to the inexplicable. They’re all fun to watch. But, I’ve always wondered: what’s the fascination? Why do humans want robots to dance? And what are we trying … Continue reading
Star Trek Remix: Data Raps About the Biology of his Cat
This is why the internet is great. [remix by Dan Bull; via Geekosystem]
