Science in Music Instruments
Andrew Sun
Sunday, 16 December 2007 14:49 UTC
The only practicle aspect that involves both science and music is music instruments. How did they develop into their modern forms? What science is applied?
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Here’s some relevant links that I found:-
1) Yale/New-Haven
2) UNSW
3) BBC -
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.
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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.
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We ourselves are of course musical instruments, i.e, our ability to sing.
Check out this interesting new resource from Scientific American
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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…)
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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.
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Never use the word ‘only’…
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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….
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