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Is Brainwave Stimulating Music a Scam?

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KEY TOPICS

Isochronic tones are repetitive beats of a single tone, which provide a very effective audio-based method of stimulating the brain.(More…)

Even if that is a simple blog post or YouTube video talking about the topic; that is a good start on stimulating thoughts and questions for the topic.(More…)

POSSIBLY USEFUL

From there, various styles of ambient music begin to play,…

@echonest is retiring its Remix API, but there’s a replacement that should do the same thing entirely locally. I’ll have to try it some day ;) 

Opinion: The Psychology of Genre

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WHEN the musician Lucinda Williams was shopping around an early demo tape of what would become her self-titled album, she was at first turned down by all the record labels she tried.

“At Sony records here in L.A.,” she said, they told her “ ‘it’s too country for rock, and so we sent it to Nashville.’ ” In Nashville, they said, “it’s too rock for country.”

Her album was…

Opinion: The Psychology of Genre

[ad_1] WHEN the musician Lucinda Williams was shopping around an early demo tape of what would become her self-titled album, she was at first turned down by all the record labels she tried. “At Sony records here in L.A.,” she said, they told her “ ‘it’s too country for rock, and so we sent it to Nashville.’ ” In Nashville, they said, “it’s too rock for country.” Her album was…

At MIT Media Lab, sensors and 21st-century sensibilities

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Joe Paradiso chuckles on the sudden growl of a small plane engine.

The airplane is not overhead. It is 50 miles away, passing over a former cranberry lavatory that Paradiso and his analysis staff are monitoring. Microphones planted there have relayed the sound to his workspace right here on the MIT Media Labas we take a look at a pc display displaying the digital…

마이크로 음악을 들려주면 어떤 음악인지 알려주는 서비스인 Shazam의 작동 원리. 아이폰이 처음 나왔을 때 Shazam이나 SoundHound를 써 보고 마냥 신기해하곤 했는데, 이 글의 내용을 완전히 이해할 수는 없지만 대강 어떤 방식으로 작동되는지에 대한 감을 잡는데는 충분한 것 같다.