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...
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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.
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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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The School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University looks like a fascinating place. The intersection between art, science, and innovation seems to be built into the DNA of the research and teaching agenda. They use the word “trans-disciplinary” to describe their collaborative process. And they connect the power of that intersection to solving “large-scale...
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