Song, Sound & Music

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  Paula Tait

  

  Nov 13, 2022

  Nature Is Always Listening: The Science of Mushrooms, Music, and How Sound Waves Stimulate Mycelial Growth

  The Marginalian - Maria Popova

  What playing music has to do with the happiness of the forest. Fungi are the evolutionary cardinals of the Earth — the first to conquer it and the last to inherit it, composing the living substratum beneath every forest and every field and every backyard ecosystem. Each cubic inch of mycelium …

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  Paula Tait

  

  ‘This song sucks’: Nick Cave responds to ChatGPT song written in style of Nick Cave

  The Guardian - Sian Cain

  Nick Cave has dissected a song produced by the viral chatbot software ChatGPT “written in the style of Nick Cave”, calling it “bullshit” and “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human”. Writing in his newsletter the Red Hand Files on Monday, Cave responded to a fan called Mark in New Zealand, …

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  Paula Tait

  

  Whistles, cracks, hisses: the noises of the northern lights

  The Guardian - Kate Ravilious

  Study finds some strong auroras are accompanied by noises from changes in the atmosphere You may have seen the shimmering greens and pinks of the aurora borealis lighting up the night sky, but have you ever heard them? Rare reports of crackling and whooshing noises accompanying auroras have …

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  Paula Tait

  

  Noise pollution is a menace to humanity – and a deadly threat to animals

  The Guardian - Karen Bakker

  Noise pollution is one of the gravest yet least recognized health threats of our time. Even moderate levels of noise – the kind that surrounds us in any urban environment – increase risks of cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, developmental delays and dementia. Now, scientists are …

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  Paula Tait

  

  ‘Our identity lies in these songs’: saving the music of India’s Biate

  The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Rajasthan

  It was five years ago, as he sat around a fire lit deep in the forests covering the hills of Dima Hasao in Assam, that a shadow of sadness came into the eyes of Lallura Darnei. Now in his seventies, Darnei was one of the oldest members of the Biate community, an ancient hill tribe living in …

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  Paula Tait

  

  Allah supreme: how Pharoah Sanders found freedom and rebellion in Islam

  Guardian US - Moustafa Bayoumi

  The day the music died was 24 September 2022. On that Saturday, the legendary tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, a man who blew his horn “as if he was a dragon breathing fire”, passed on, at age 81. With his death came the end of a majestic era, a time of saxophone spirituality and musical …