SciFri Radio: Music

SciFri Radio: Treating Stress, Speech Disorders With Music
Neurologists and therapists discuss how music therapy works, and the state of the science behind it.

SciFri Radio: Synth Music Pioneer Thomas Dolby Back With New EP
Electronic music pioneer Thomas Dolby talks about his career in music and technology.

SciFri Radio: High-Tech Opera Features Robots as Stars
Composer Tod Machover melds music and technology in his new opera Death and the Powers.

SciFri Radio: Digital Sampling and Remix Culture: Creativity or Criminality?
How much of someone else’s work should artists be able to use? How much should they pay for it? Is copyright law stuck in the age of analog?

SciFri Radio: 2010 Ig Nobel Prizes
It's time for our annual broadcast of highlights from the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, recognizing the strange, silly, and stupid in the world of...

SciFri Radio: How Music Works
From pitch to frequency and harmony to rhythm, how do sounds become music?

SciFri Radio: Amygdaloids
When neuroscience meets rock-n-roll.

SciFri Radio: In 2010, A Space Opera
For the past week, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York has been home to an unusual sight -- performances...

SciFri Radio: They Might Be Giants: Here Comes Science
The band They Might Be Giants presents a new album of science-themed music.

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SciFri Videos: Music

Video: Oliver Sacks on Music and the Brain
What does being struck by lightening have to do with musical ability? Find out. Ira speaks with author and neurologist Oliver Sacks about music and...

Video: Your Video: Hotel Mauna Kea
Welcome to the Hotel Mauna Kea. Five planetary astronomers bring you an original science music video about life at the observatory at the...

Video: TMBG Plays 'Meet The Elements'
They Might Be Giants rocks out with Ira in the NPR studio in New York.

Video: How To Make A Junk Guitar
So you want to jam like a rock star, but you don't want to shell out for an electric guitar? Make one yourself. Sound artist Ranjit Bhatnagar...

Video: Tiny Dancers Show Rhythm's Roots
In perhaps the cutest study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, psychologist Marcel Zentner and Tuomas...

Video: Finding The Notes Among Us
The honk of a horn or the rumble of a truck sounds like noise to most of us. But to Lucy Fitz Gibbon, and others with absolute pitch, there are...

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