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What Music Do Animals Like?

Updated March 2, 2024 | Published March 9, 2021 by Mic Hael

What Music Do Animals Like? Research published today by the American Psychological Association has shown that chimpanzees prefer listening to West African akan and North Indian raga over listening to silence. What does this say about the evolutionary purpose of music? Previous work by McDermott and Hauser showed that when tamarins and marmosets were given … Read more

What makes music sound ‘good’?

Updated March 2, 2024 | Published March 6, 2021 by Mic Hael

Random paint splashed on a canvas is much less appalling than random notes plunked down on a piano. Research, from Dr. Dmitri Tymoczko. youtube presentation on the geometry of music: “Random paint splashed on a canvas is much less appalling than random notes plunked down on a piano.” http://dmitri.tymoczko.com/publications.html What makes music sound good is a … Read more

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Here is our collection of “excellent, important info” for smarties, a cornucopic top-drawer overflowing delicious variety and intrigue. This website largely concerns vibrations and oscillations — vibratory anything, with life, physics, science, music is primary focus plus oddball tidbits mixed-in for flavor and zest.

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All is inseparably connected via vibration. Per scripture, sound was the beginning: If “God is two octaves above man,” but ‘silence is golden,’ doesn’t that leave us somewhere between precious and divine? We should live up to that.