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Fungi treatment produces Stradivarius-worthy sounds

A bit of fungi and a modern violin can sound like a Stradivarius.

Dancing chromatophores

Music has the ability to get these pigmented cephalopod cells moving to the beat.

Fighting fire with music

Forget water, bring out the bass.

The evolution of music

Music can evolve by the process of natural selection, the same way species evolve in the natural world.

Machine playing instruments

Who would have thought that machines could ‘play’ instruments. PureTune used an Atari 800XL (organ), HP Scanjet 3P (vocals), Texas Instrument Ti-99/4A (guitar) and a hard-drive powered by a microcontroller (bass drum and cymbal)…

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