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Listen to the oldest known conch shell horn from 18,000 years ago

Humans

Listen to the oldest known conch shell horn from 18,000 years ago

An 18,000-year-old conch shell originally found in the Pyrenees mountains in 1931 may have been used as a musical instrument by Magdalenian people

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Piano playing

Technology

AI can grade your skill at piano by watching you play

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A young chimpanzee swinging from a tree

Environment

Origins of human music linked to our ancestors’ daredevil behaviour

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Got To Keep On (2019), installation by The Chemical Brothers and Smith & Lyall 03

Video

Electronic: a trip through the history of music

Video

Robert Henke show, CBM 8032 AV

Video

How an artist made a concert from five 40-year-old Commodore computers

Video

MIDI 2.0: The code that will define the future of sound has arrived

Technology

MIDI 2.0: The code that will define the future of sound has arrived

Features

Man listening to music

Mind

We process a song's lyric and melody on different sides of the brain

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Don't miss: A singing bridge, a lost people and brilliant minds

Humans

Don't miss: A singing bridge, a lost people and brilliant minds

Culture

Rowan Hooper interviews super humans at ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ Live

Video

How to be superhuman: The science behind extraordinary abilities

Video

Liquid metal speaker

Technology

Listen to a bendy audio speaker made from liquid heavy metal

A loudspeaker made from heavy metal that works when bent brings us one step closer to audio devices that can be worn directly on the skin

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Humans

Humans across cultures may share the same universal musical grammar

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Technology

Drill music with positive lyrics is more popular than negative songs

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Technology

Don't miss: Armstrong, the science of music and codebreaking

Culture

Technology

A classical concert at the Barbican shows how AI interprets a recital

Culture

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