Some news stories old and recent that I've forgotten to post:
Two responses to DarwinTunes (more coming):
Discover Magazine
Michael Scott Cuthbert, who works
on computer-aided musical analysis at MIT, is sceptical that the
approach tells us anything about the evolution of music. “They have
shown that people can sense a glimmer of the things they like about
music even when most of it consists of sounds they hate,” he says. “But
it doesn’t give any information about why music sounded differently in
the past, why people like different things today, or how music might
evolve in the future.”
“Suppose you randomly threw car parts into piles and asked people to
rate those they’d most like to buy,” he says. “Then you took parts from
the highest-rated heaps, and rearranged them into new heaps. People
might hate all of them at first, but they’d probably rate the ones with
four tires or a trunk in the back or a steering wheel in the drivers’
seat higher than the rest. Do that long enough and I wouldn’t be
surprised that you’d eventually get something that looked like a 2011
Honda Civic. But that doesn’t mean that that’s how a car is made.”
L.A. Times
The study shows that people "can discern the little things they like
about music even in the context of a lot of extraneous sounds," said MIT
computational musicologist Michael Scott Cuthbert, who wasn't involved
in the research. "But what they don't prove is why music today has
changed from the popular music
of the past. It doesn't show how changing tastes result in changing
music and it doesn't give us a hint of what the future holds for music."
Five things from MIT:
MIT News Office on the ELVIS grant
MIT Tech interview on the ELVIS grant (posted previously)
MIT SHASS Magazine article (Spring 2010) on my research
A little blurb about my work (might change to someone else's in the future)
A little piece on a completion of a piece by Zachara da Teramo
Many new papers posted at Academia.edu.
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