My ANU colleague John Rayner’s excellent recent article on the physics of music seemed to touch a nerve with the readership of The Conversation. Although beautifully framed by the personal and ...

What does science have to do with abstraction? Can music exist without sound? What are the roles that images play in science and art? These were but a few of the questions discussed by physicists and ...

One of the strangest viral music phenoms of the year is the Quebecois duo Angine de Poitrine. In February a 27-minute-long YouTube video of the pair exploded. Playing music that sounds like nothing ...

Mixing to tell a story, Ruben Favaro's story is a blend of formula and electronic. Photo by Pauletta Tohonnie Ruben Favaro is entangled in one of the most complicated love stories of his time, and he ...

To the memory of Leonard Bernstein, the greatest musical educator of all time, a great conductor and composer who loved jazz and whose televised lectures brought a whole generation of listeners into ...

Science and art are colliding on the William & Mary campus as part of a performance that will be staged this spring. Aura Curiatlas Physical Theatre is developing its production of “A Life With No ...

In her course Physics 1204: Physics of Music, Prof. Kathy Selby, physics, explains the mathematical relationships that help determine why some musical tunes are enjoyable and others are perceived as ...

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Brian Holmes, decades ago, was faced with a choice: Music or physics? “I was a musician first,” he explained during a recent phone call from his San Jose home. “Then a physicist. I had a hard time ...