One thing a lot of studio engineers and musicians don't realize is that all of shit "mixing gear" isn't just that. The signal processing trade serves a lot of various industries, from music, radars, the medical field, and even nuclear physics. Just like mixers, other engineers need to clean up their electric signals to separate the … Continue reading Oscilloscope Music – Visual Signals & Songs
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Music is an art, but it’s built on a system entirely governed by math and physics. That means scientists can have their fun too by studying our craft and sharing their results. In the Science category of the LedgerNote Blog, we’ve gathered all of the good stuff for you. Check it out below.
I see this technology completely revolutionizing speaker systems for concerts and arenas... The team over at the École Polytechnique Fédérale Dé Lausanne, a research facility in Lausanne, Switzerland, has invented what's being called an Acoustic Prism. We all played with optical prisms in school growing up. These were those transparent pyramidal triangles that refracted light, … Continue reading Acoustic Prism Invented – Breaking Sound Into Frequencies
A luxury facial hair grooming company called West Coast Shaving got sick of lead singers getting all of the attention. The other band members count too, and often are more handsome or at least rock a better beard! And we all know how many of the best bands our planet has ever been graced with held … Continue reading The Faces of Rock: Composite Images of 30 Classic Bands
Melomics Media created their name as a play on the word genomics, referring to the genome of melodies. The study of genomes requires the help of distributed computer processing power. So the name's really fitting for Melomics, because they're doing something really similar. They've written a computer algorithm that is capable of composing music without … Continue reading Melomics – Music Made Without Humans (For Robots Only!)
The thousands of age old arguments amongst rap and hip hop fans are now being settled. Using a scientific analysis of data curated from various lyrics databases, we now know the answer to questions such as... Which rapper has the largest vocabulary? Who cusses the most? Which lyricist has the most complex rhyme schemes? Who strings … Continue reading Rap Lyric Analytics with Rapalytics
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