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Machine Learning writes Songs that Elicits Emotions from its listeners

This is a Brain Music EEG headset. Credit: Osaka University

This is a Brain Music EEG headset. Credit: Osaka University

Music, more than any art, is a beautiful mix of science and emotion. It follows a set of patterns almost mathematically to extract feelings from its audience. Machines that make music focus on these patterns, but give little consideration to the emotional response of their audience. An international research team led by Osaka University together with Tokyo Metropolitan University, imec in Belgium and Crimson Technology has released a new machine-learning device that detects the emotional state of its listeners to produce new songs that elicit new feelings.

“Most machine songs depend on an automatic composition system,” says Masayuki Numao, professor at Osaka University...

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Astronomer Creates Music using Star Oscillations

Astronomer creates music using star oscillations

Astronomers have long known that stars can vibrate like peeling bells. This observation has ushered in an entire sub discipline of astronomy known as astroseismology, in which astronomers attempt to better understand the structure of their charges by studying the way they vibrate. Sheet music for the composition. Credit: arXiv:1507.07307 [physics.pop-ph]

Astronomer Burak Ulaş, with the Izmir Turk College Planetarium in Turkey has taken his work into a musical dimension, using star oscillations as a source for a musical composition. He describes what he has done along with sheet music and an audio recording of his work to the preprint server arXiv—along with a shout-out to other pioneers in the field, from Kepler to Pythagoras to modern composer scientists Jenő Keuler and Zoltán Kolláth...

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