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Sound Play Birds, Like Humans, Sing Just Because They Can
Animal researchers like Gisela Kaplan, Ph.D., and Irene Pepperberg, Ph.D., have determined that birds not only sing to communicate daily needs, many engage in sound play, most often when they’re alone, but sometimes also when humans are present. Some species continually improvise their singing
with new elements, phrases and sequences, reports Ka- plan, a professor at the Research Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour at the University of New England, Australia. Nightingales and canaries are among the avian virtuosos, reinventing their repertoire in each successive season, while the brown thrasher may hold the record at close to 2,000 song types. Nightingales, she notes, organize their compositions according to rules of construction similar to the way humans use syntax. These birds even create distinctive phrases that identify them as individuals. Kaplan’s own recordings of Australian magpies reveal how the bird’s voice moves
across four octaves, varies its phrasing between staccato and legato, and embellishes sequences with vibrato, trills or deep overtones. More, it will close a completed song with a signature phrase, in much the same way that a painter initials a finished canvas.
Creative Computing Programmed Software Composes Original Music
From Darkness, Light is the debut album of Emily Howell, a computer program with the ability to synthesize musical pieces resembling the works of history’s most renowned classical composers. Emily’s programmer, David Cope, pro- fessor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, believes that such artistically able machines signal an opportunity for collaboration with human artists, not a digital replacement for them. “Computers are there [for us] to extend ourselves through them,” he says. Human musicians perform most of Emily’s compositions.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
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One America Classical Forms Meet Latin
Rhythms in Concert Halls
Latin rhythms and melodies have been spicing up popular music for years. Now, the infectious influences from ev- ery corner of Central and South Amer- ica are turning up in concert halls, performed by symphony orchestras across the United States. This season’s arrival of Venezuela’s superstar conduc- tor Gustavo Dudamel as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic has ignited a love affair with tonalities from south of the U.S. border. “Arts organizations that recognize
and incorporate Hispanic culture are both at the cutting edge and ensur- ing their own future,” remarks Carol Reynolds, music history professor at Southern Methodist University, in Dal- las. “The incorporation of Latin-based music into the classical world is long overdue.”
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
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