Electronic Musical Instrument Design Course Bridges Art/Science Gap
Tuft University’s Electronic Musical Instrument Design Course is a hybrid class where engineering students collaborate with students from the arts. In addition to spelling out the curriculum, the paper mentions that the creation of this course was helped by the presence of two multi-disciplinary programs already present at Tuft: Musical Instrument Engineering and Multimedia...
Read MoreThe Symphony of Science
The Symphony of Science is a website devoted to delivering information about science in musical form. Musician and producer John Boswell uses audio from scientists, auto-tunes it, and re-mixes it with music.
Read MoreChart Topper Algorithm
The University of Bristol’s Intelligent Systems Laboratory has developed an algorithm that can predict with a 60 percent success rate whether a song will make it to the top 5 in the UK charts. The algorithm creates a score for each song based on comparing measurements of various audio features of the song with the features of hits from that time period.
Read MoreLab Grammys
Online journal BioTechniques holds an annual science music parody contest. At this link, you will find the 2012 winner and nominees, as well as a link to the 2011 contestants.
Read MoreI’m Bringin’ Stickleback
Science blog “The Scorpion and the Frog” highlighted this trio of science music videos. Enjoy musical parodies on fish genetics, climate change, and reproduction.
Read MoreSounds Like Science
Nonprofit mentoring organization Michigan Reach Out! has a collection of science lessons based around the physics of sound. These were saved from the now defunct Vancouver, Canada based APASE site. Each one features the construction of a different simple musical instrument (drum, guitar, kazoo, and bottle organ), ending in a musical...
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