Danial Kheirikhah, a cleanly actor, shows, in this video how to wash one’s hands with the aid of a recording of a symphony orchestra: An Earlier Experiment with Kids A related—but not identical—technique has previously been shown to have some degree of merit for children. For details about that, see the study “The Effects of […]
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Facial Pain and the Instruments of Finnish Orchestra Musicians
Aki Savolainen writes: “I found this one article my father was working on a year ago, which found out that musicians with sleep bruxism experience pain related to the severity of their symptoms (surprise), and the instrument they happen to be playing has no effect on the amount of pain experienced.” The study is: “Oro-facial […]
Classical music: has it been ‘weaponized’?
“Classical music was first used as a deterrent by 7-Eleven convenience stores in British Colombia, Canada. In 1985, branch managers began piping classical music into the stores’ parking lots in order to prevent teenagers from congregating there.” – explains Dr Marie Thompson who is a lecturer at Lincoln School of Film & Media, Lincoln University, […]
Robot orchestra acquires clothingless humans
One of Belgium’s most renowned robot orchestras has acquired the use of several naked persons. The orchestra, sans naked persons, was written up a few years ago in a study: “The Man and Machine Robot Orchestra at Logos,” Laura Maes, Godfried-Willem Raes and Troy Rogers, Computer Music Journal, 35:4, pp. 28–48, Winter 2011. The authors, […]
Whistlers with Orchestra [from Russia to Germany to you]
This photo shows a recording of “whistlers with orchestra” labeled in Russian, reproduced in Germany in English, sort of. Follow the link to hear this scholarly treasure and see more detail about it: [Source: Russian-Records.com]
Pattern recognition: Similar composers & actors
The Queensland Symphony Orchestra is assembling a collection of photos of composers and actors who physically resembled each other. The entire collection is on the orchestra’s web site. Here’s a small sampling: (Thanks to investigator Charles Krause for bringing this to our attention.)