Music Technology News

Those ubiquitous wires connecting listeners to you-name-the-sounds from invisible MP3 players -- whether of Bach, Miles Davis or, more likely today, Lady Gaga -- only hint at music's effect on the soul throughout the ages.

Musical sounds created by longitudinal vibrations within the Sun's atmosphere, have been recorded and accurately studied for the first time by experts at the University of Sheffield, shedding light on the Sun's magnetic atmosphere

Ever since ancient times, scholars have puzzled over the reasons that some musical note combinations sound so sweet while others are just downright dreadful

Excavations in the summer of 2008 at the sites of Hohle Fels and Vogelherd produced new evidence for Paleolithic music in the form of the remains of one nearly complete bone flute.

A group of researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) has developed Inmamusys, a software program that can create music in response to emotions that arise in the listener.

The varied algorithms from Bohemian Rhapsody could lead to improvements in the electrical engineers' song labeling and search engine system.

Native African people who have never even listened to the radio before can nonetheless pick up on happy, sad, and fearful emotions in Western music

Researchers at University of Amsterdam demonstrated that two to three day old babies can detect the beat in music.

Could soon lead to the manufacturing of a perfect cat's eye.

Some sell for more than $3.5 million. Only 700 of them exist, and they’re stored in vaults, frequently stolen and often counterfeited.