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The sound is unearthly, the sort of hypnotic drone you might hear from the chanting of state-of-the-art Tibetan monks. Or a vibration picked up via radio signals from another galaxy. In fact, it's not a human sound at all. It's a half-dozen mobile phones. The eerie music is part of a "mobile renaissance," said Ge Wang, creator of the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra, known as MoPhO.
Tagged: Arts News, music, Arts & Creativity, Engineering, Humanities & Sciences
Using brain images of people listening to short symphonies by an
obscure 18th-century composer, a research team from Stanford's School of Medicine has gained valuable insight into how the
brain sorts out the chaotic world around it.
Tagged: brain imaging, music, Arts & Creativity, Human Health, Humanities & Sciences, Medicine
The World Wide Web typically connects people through static media like
text and photos. But what if people on two different continents could
share a real-time environment combining sights and sounds from both
places? Can online technology do justice to a musical performance, for
example?
Tagged: music, online, Arts & Creativity, International Issues
Why are opera singers' voices so distinctive and powerful? Why can we pick them out against the sound of more than 100 accompanying instruments?
Tagged: music, singing, Stanford Institute for Creativity and Arts, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences