Recent replies to "Science in Music Instruments"

Reply from Graham Steel

Graham Steel — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:16:19 -0000

Check out:-

”Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation” Limb et al

This Paper was published yesterday in PLoS ONE.

It a rather interesting Paper….

Reply from Andrew Sun

Andrew Sun — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:53:06 -0000

Never use the word ‘only’...

Reply from Graham Steel

Graham Steel — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:08:50 -0000

Please do Nicolau,

This is becoming a very interesting thread indeed.

Psychophysics is a new word to me.

So, here’s what PubMed Central threw up.

Reply from Nicolau Werneck

Nicolau Werneck — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:34:21 -0000

My master’s was about the non-linear dynamics of the electric guitar strings, the shape of the waves created on the pickups, how distortion stompboxes work, and a bit of the psychophysics of the timbre perception… It’s in Portuguese, but I may post it here anyway sometime soon!... :) (it has some beautiful graphics and a nice references section…)

Reply from Graham Steel

Graham Steel — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:26:08 -0000

We ourselves are of course musical instruments, i.e, our ability to sing.

Check out this interesting new resource from Scientific American

Reply from Graham Steel

Graham Steel — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:39:48 -0000

Here is another angle.

Stumbled upon this earlier today.

“The singer/songwriter/artist/author (David Byrne) enters the Seed Salon to discuss music with the producer/neuroscientist (Daniel Levitin)”.

This 9 minute edited version covers ample ground but unlike me, if you have a full hour to spare on the issues under discussion, there is an option to watch the full monty version.

Reply from Bronwen Dekker

Bronwen Dekker — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:41:34 -0000

I know that this is a slight side-track—but another scientific aspect of music relates to acoustics and how to design concert halls optimally to take this into account.

Reply from Graham Steel

Graham Steel — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:06:17 -0000

Here’s some relevant links that I found:-

1) Yale/New-Haven
2) UNSW
3) BBC