Daft Punk sculptures and scientific breakthroughs - the vision of sound is alive and well.
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New research has blown open our ability to perceive outside the human frequency range. Will we soon be able to understand whales?
TAKING your date to a restaurant? Make sure the atmosphere music is right, because it turns out sounds can make food taste better or worse.
"How can music express the unimaginable?" asked The Arts Desk this week.
In his article Graham Rickson expertly relates the varying efforts of film composers to capture 'the great beyond' of sci-fi.
Beginning with Haydn's opera Life On the Moon and stopping by way of Bernard Herrmann's use of the (Star Trek-famed) theremin on The Day The Earth Stood Still in 1951, he still finds time to dismiss Hans Zimmer's recent Interstellar score as overdone saying that Zimmer mistakes "high volume for gravitas".
So which came top of the list? His favourite soundtrack is "the one assembled by husband and wife team Louis and Bebe Barron for MGM's 1954 update of The Tempest, Forbidden Planet".
A rapper causing seizures? This is more common than you might think...
THINK twice the next time you tease your friend for their terrible dancing because it might be that they literally cannot hear the rhythm.
BINAURAL Beats, I-Dosing and the Khaleej Times doing its best to set the news agenda over the 'drug-like' effects.
Scientists search for the key to why certain songs are more memorable than others.