News tagged with amateur musicians
Using video clips, Israeli DJ creates a million-hit wonder
May 31, 2009 |
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Ophir Kutiel didn't set out to become YouTube's Elvis Presley. The 27-year-old Israeli DJ was just looking for a good beat.
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Music makes you smarter
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Regularly playing a musical instrument changes the anatomy and function of the brain and may be used in therapy to improve cognitive skills.
Report Says Musicians Hear Better Than Non-Musicians
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Journal of Neuroscience reports this week that musicians are better than non-musicians at recognizing speech in noisy environments. The finding from a study conducted by neurobiologists at Nor ...
Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us. Vanderbilt University psychologists have found that professionally ...
Why musicians make us weep and computers don't
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Music can soothe the savage breast much better if played by musicians rather than clever computers, according to a new University of Sussex-led study published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE.
Musicians' Brains 'Fine-Tuned' to Identify Emotion
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking for a mate who in everyday conversation can pick up even your most subtle emotional cues? Find a musician, Northwestern University researchers suggest.
75 percent of athletes' parents let their child skip exams for a game
Aug 25, 2008 |
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Three quarters of parents of young athletes let their child forgo an exam for an important game, a new study conducted at the University of Haifa has found. In comparison, only 47% of parents of young musicians will agree ...
Multimedia system provides new view of musical performance
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Musicians can now use 3D computer analysis to radically improve their technique, thanks to the latest research in multimedia technology from the University of Leeds.
Music Technology Researchers Create New Robotic Percussionist
Nov 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Georgia Tech has created an improved version of the robotic percussionist. The second edition, named Shimon, is designed to play a melodic instrument – the marimba. It, therefore, utilizes ...
Guitarists' brains swing together (w/Video)
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 17, 2009 |
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When musicians play along together it isn't just their instruments that are in time - their brain waves are too. Research published in the online open access journal BMC Neuroscience shows how EEG readouts from pairs of gui ...
Internet Age re-inventing music business: Bandwidth
Aug 29, 2009 |
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Music and Internet worlds merged on San Francisco's posh Nob Hill as insiders brainstormed about industry rocking Web 2.0 trends from social networking to smart phones with cameras.
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