Enjoyment

Outer Streams – Metaphysics of Music

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Music can be “a metaphysics based on the cooperation between what we know and what we don’t.” 6 parts 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5AG97vlG  4w 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crH5CXr8Q  C8 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZHF-QkMS  HE 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0DEcvpdQ  uM 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BpNdFtaS  RI 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ7y4Lehz  hA Jazz Composer and Performer Dr. Nelson Harrison explains the metaphysics of music. Music can be “a metaphysics based on the cooperation between what we know and what we don’t.” Dr. … Read more

Evolution of Music by Public Choice

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Music evolves as composers, performers, and consumers favor some musical variants over others. To investigate the role of consumer selection, we constructed a Darwinian music engine consisting of a population of short audio loops that sexually reproduce and mutate. This population evolved for 2,513 generations under the selective influence of 6,931 consumers who rated the … Read more

Musical rhythm spectra from Bach to Joplin obey a 1/f power law

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Much of our enjoyment of music comes from its balance of predictability and surprise. Musical pitch fluctuations follow a 1/f power law that precisely achieves this balance. Musical rhythms, especially those of Western classical music, are considered highly regular and predictable, and this predictability has been hypothesized to underlie rhythm’s contribution to our enjoyment of … Read more

Understanding the Different Types of Acoustical Treatments – Absorption

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In this livestream, we go over the various types of acoustical room treatments with resident expert Anthony Grimani. We discuss how to acoustically treat a room and where to locate treatments along with things you should NOT do. Various acoustical treatment types are discussed with this episode focusing on absorption. Diffusion, reflectors, and bass traps … Read more