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World Science Festival 2009: Don't Worry Be Happy!
Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event "Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus", from the 2009 World Science Festival, June 12, 2009.
For more info check http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/
Bobby McFerrin treated the audience to several improvised a cappella performances. Here is the first of two songs:
ISMIR 2009
The Tenth International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference will take place in October 26-30 2009, in Kobe, Japan. Our colleague Sten will give a presentation of his research topics there on Tuesday 27.
Also a shakuhachi concert is planned in the conference room that day. The shakuhachi is a Japanese traditional instrument. The performers are Zenpo Simura, Hidefumi Izukawa & Josh Smith of the Osaka University of Arts. In 2008, Hidefumi Izukawa formed a unit called "Kurofune" with Josh Smith. Here they are with their composition "Sakura" live in Fukui:
A new technique identifies versions of the same song
A team of researchers from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF, Spain) has developed a system to identify common patterns in versions of songs, which will help to quantify the similarity of musical pieces.
http://www.physorg.com/news175425825.html
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