At the 2009 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Taiwan, UC San Diego electrical engineering Ph.D. student Luke Barrington presented a new model for music analysis (pdf) that can capture both the sound of a song and how it changes over time. The system is being used for a new search engine, dubbed Google for Music, and users would search for descriptive words, like “mellow jazz”, instead of song titles, album names or artist names. Read more...
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24.5.09
New Music Search Engine: Queen And Led Zeppelin Segmented
11.5.09
Music Affects Your Judgment Of Facial Expressions
A recent research project led by Dr Joydeep Bhattacharya from the University of London showed that by listening to music, the way we judge facial expressions is “enhanced”. Even though you might think that music only deals with hearing, it seems when we listen to music, our perception of emotion is somehow manipulated on a subconscious level.
Volunteers listened to 15 seconds of music, and then gauged the emotions of a face. The research found that listening to happy or sad music made people distinguish more happiness or sadness in a face. Even more eerie: this music-induced effect occurred even when there wasn’t any emotion in the faces of the volunteers they were judging. Continue reading...
21.3.09
Study Shows Music Emotions are Universal
A study shows that happy, sad and fearful emotions in music are universally recognizable. Members of the Mafa, a native African ethnic group in Cameroon, were able to detect the three emotions in Western music without ever having listened to it, as published recently in Current Biology. Continue reading...
6.3.09
Theory States Listeners Prefer Mp3 Quality over Vinyl and CD
A theory developed by Jonathan Berger, Professor of Music at Stanford University, California, says that music fans are getting used to mp3 quality on their iPods, even though producers say that the sound quality is lacking. Continue reading...
28.1.09
Newborn Infants Can Detect The Beat In Music
Using brain-signal detection and measurement, scientists have discovered a phenomenon called “beat induction” in two to three day old babies. Unique to humans, either innate or learned in the womb, beat induction is the ability to detect and synchronize rhythms, and is linked to the origin of music itself. Read more...
22.1.09
Enduring Loud Music with Hearing Intact
You may love the high-decibel rock concerts and ear-splitting club floors, but it’s proven that continued exposure to loud music can harm your ears. Leave it to science to find a solution! By altering the system of the human ear, scientists have discovered a “tweak” that can lower the impact of permanently damaging sounds. Read more...
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