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Ring in the New Year with this new take on a holiday tradition.

At the head of a major research programme, Anne-Madeleine Goulet has unearthed a buried treasure from Roman archives: one hundred years of prolific creation on the stage from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century, under the auspices of an aristocracy seeking prestige.

On view at EPFL Pavilions, the exhibition Musica ex Machina: Machines Thinking Musically offers an immersive journey through the incredible history of algorithmic thinking and music.

The consultation table Popmusici (Pop Musicians) is launching the Fair Pop Pilot. From September to November 2024, fair pay fees will be paid to performing artists and musicians at eight participating pop venues.

Digital music professor Nicolas Bernier is developing a method for notating sound textures in electroacoustic performances.

If you've ever been brought to tears by music, you know its power. An ANU study has explored how people respond to singing.

On 23 and 24 July, pop singer Taylor Swift gave 2 concerts in the Hamburg Volkspark stadium. Those who couldn't get tickets could at least watch the seismic waves created during the performance, via a live stream from the WAVE network at Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld.

Nakib Protik investigates the transport properties of materials, specifically, the strong drag physics; Stefanie Alisch explores sound systems for a new understanding of musicology.

Researchers studying the science of cultural evolution have conducted a comprehensive study of the role of 'first-mover advantage' in music, the power of being first, mirroring the concept's proven importance in the business world. Data collected from nearly one million songs across 110 music genres supports the hypothesis that pioneering artists and bands who lay the groundwork for new genres achieve greater popularity than their later contemporaries.

Using data from the Zwicky Transient Facility, Southern California high school student Vanya Agrawal creates new "space music.

In 2016, Caltech planetary scientists Konstantin Batygin (PhD '12) and Mike Brown proposed evidence for a new planet five to 10 times the size of Earth and lurking over 20 billion miles from the Sun (10 times farther than Neptune's orbit). The duo called the unseen body "Planet 9." On May 17 and 18, the public can hear a symphony inspired by the Planet 9 hypothesis.

Do you really want to know what we were doing on April 19' Listening to Taylor Swift's double-album release, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology , of course.