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Whether learning about new music or a new culture, PhD candidate Jamie Wong takes a similar approach: Seek out the experts, then -try to play along and keep up.

Posters, historical models, and hands-on exhibits provide insight into the conceptual world of mathematical conjecture and, in particular, the Hodge conjecture.

Deidre D.S.SENSE Smith has found that, like music itself, hip-hop is becoming a universal language.

The University of Toronto's  Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden remembers the moment she became interested in how humans perceive sound.

14:30 Publication The festival season is in full swing.

It is amazing what kind of magical sounds can be elicited from a piece of wood treated with fungi. The biotech violin, whose tonewood has been developed at Empa, is now taking to the concert stage with violinist Irina Pak.

In a series of listening experiments, an UdeM postdoc finds that having lyrics in a song-or even meaningless syllables that change-makes it more difficult to hear when the singer's not in key. Ever notice when someone's singing out of key? Like when you're in a karaoke bar and your best friend belts out her favorite Adele track but woefully misses the mark? Ever wonder how you know right away she's singing flat? Well, Michael Weiss might have an answer for you.

Whether it's jazz recordings, concert footage, photographs or interviews, researchers are applying machine learning and digital museology techniques to archives of cultural data to achieve new artistic and creative experiences.

An EPFL PhD candidate in urban sociology spent four years working at the Montreux Jazz Festival in order to gain insights into how safety and security are managed, both within and around this world-famous event.

Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd July 2022 Aix-Marseille université - Aix-en-Provence campus - Schuman site - Patio Nord 3 Avenue Robert Schuman, 13100 Aix-en-Provence Open to the general public - Free ent

U-M doctoral candidate creates sonic interaction with legendary floral garden The newly minted W.E. Upjohn Peony Garden is celebrating 100 years of peonies, approaching the end of their season at the University of Michigan's Nichols Arboretum.

From exploring the nature of creativity to turning a building into an instrument, a unique collaboration between EPFL's Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab (DCML) and celebrated jazz pianist Michael Wollny aims to push the boundaries of music theory.

Each spring as early as 4 a.m., a choir of tweeting and chirping birds known as the "dawn chorus" produces a musical wake-up call - in more ways than one.

Known as 'Qamani'tuaq' in Inuktitut, Baker Lake in Nunavut is home to Indigenous hip hop artists who are the subjects of post-doc researcher Raj Singh's study.

Music fans are most likely to care about climate change and place a higher priority on tackling the crisis than non-music fans, a new report published today revealed.