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sabato 27 aprile 2024

# ethno: cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries.


<< Music is present in every known society but varies from place to place. What, if anything, is universal to music cognition? (AA) measured a signature of mental representations of rhythm in 39 participant groups in 15 countries, spanning urban societies and Indigenous populations. >>️

Their << results suggest a common feature of music cognition: discrete rhythm ‘categories’ at small-integer ratios. These discrete representations plausibly stabilize musical systems in the face of cultural transmission but interact with culture-specific traditions to yield the diversity that is evident when mental representations are probed across many cultures. >>️

Nori Jacoby, Rainer Polak, et al. Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries. Nat Hum Behav.  doi: 10.1038/ s41562-023-01800-9. March 4, 2024. 

Also: ethno, music, jazz, behav, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: ethno, music, jazz, behavior


venerdì 29 novembre 2019

# gst: a bizarre extension of the Jelly Roll approach, the morphogenesis of the leaves (plant Utricularia gibba)

AA << discovered that simple shifts in gene activity in the leaf bud provide a flexible mechanism for how leaves of all shapes and sizes are made. >>

<< We've discovered a general principle by which leaves from flat sheets to needle-like and curved shapes are formed,  (..) We found that the complex leaf shapes of carnivorous plants evolved from species with flat leaves through simple shifts in gene activity in the leaf bud. What surprised us is that how such a simple mechanism could underlie such a wide diversity of leaf shapes.  (..) If you want to understand why water boils at 100°C, look for situations in which it doesn't, like the top of Mount Everest where it boils at 70°C. From that we learn the general principle that boiling point depends on air pressure. Similarly, if you want to understand why most leaves are flat, you might study exceptions, like the leaves of some carnivorous plants which form pitchers to trap prey, >> Enrico Coen.

Nature's secret recipe for making leaves. John Innes Centre. Nov 21, 2019. 

https://m.phys.org/news/2019-11-nature-secret-recipe.html

Christopher D. Whitewoods, Beatriz Goncalves, et al. Evolution of carnivorous traps from planar leaves through simple shifts in gene expression. Science. eaay5433 doi: 10.1126/science.aay5433. Nov 21, 2019

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/11/20/science.aay5433


Also

keyword "Jelly Roll" in Notes:

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=jelly+roll

keyword "Jazz" in Notes:

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=jazz

keyword "Jelly Roll" in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=jelly+roll


venerdì 30 aprile 2021

# gst: immediate 'shot', the three second time window in art, music, poems and language processing

<< Is there a universal time constant for poetic lines when people read them aloud or recite them by heart? Turner and Pöppel (1988) collected over 20 types of poetry, varying from East to West and from modern societies to indigenous cultures, and found a constant of ~3 s for the duration of poetic lines. >>️

<< This observation indicates a production– perception synchrony of ~3 s, which means that we not only tend to recite poems  (and speech in a more general sense; discussed later) with a 3-s pattern but also appreciate poems aesthetically within the same temporal frame. This temporal preference for a 3-s pattern and not a 1-s or a 10-s pattern, which linguistically would be possible, indicates presumably a profound evolutionary basis. The temporal modulation effect of the 3-s window on aesthetic appreciation may also motivate to look for other concepts and phenomena of the cognitive and neural basis of aesthetic perception in general and in detail, as has been partly already done for decision processes, the visual arts, and music (Avram et al., 2013; Bao et al., 2016; Bao et al., 2017; Park et al., 2014; Park et al., 2015; Pöppel, 1989a). >>

Xinchi Yu, Yan Bao. The three second time window in poems and language processing in general: Complementarity of discrete timing and temporal continuity.  PsyCh Journal. Vol 9, Issue 4 p. 429-443. doi: 10.1002/ pchj.390. Aug 26, 2020. 


<< the composer Peter Michael Hamel  (..) decided to compose a string quartet, which he called The Time Frame. This time window (the three second time window), which is an anthropological universal, provides an operative basis for effortless communication, empathic relationships to others, and it is the brain's way to integrate continuity and simultaneity of what is experienced in a complementary mode. >>️

Peter Michael Hamel. Through the self to music: The self as the creative origin for composing in time frames. Psych J. 10(2):249-253. doi: 10.1002/ pchj.446. Apr 12, 2021


Also 

Ramificata tinnula (di carmina fluitantia). Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry). Jun 09, 2005.


Elettrico Charlie (Seven come eleven). 
Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry). Feb 01, 2007. 


Il pseudomotore di Shostakovich. Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry). Nov 15, 2006. 


keyword 'jazz' in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry)


FonT 

Queste considerazioni di Xinchi Yu e  Yan Bao potrebbero anche indicare una sorta di predisposizione neurofisiologica individuale all' 'immediato Satori' ... 









martedì 27 giugno 2023

# gst: laminar and turbulent flows detected in music, a fluid framework approach

<< The relationship between musical material and physical phenomena has become a topic in the musicological literature over the last several decades, particularly concerning elements of the musical system itself, and constructions found in the work of contemporary classical composers such as Gyorgy Ligeti and Iannis Xenakis. Most scholars, who adopt this approach, explore the physical phenomena of fractals in the analysis of musical works, but fluid mechanical frameworks, such as laminar and turbulent flows, offer a new avenue to be explored. In this paper (AA) will propose a novel method of musical analysis for examining musical structures in terms of fluid-like behaviour such that Ligeti etude no. 9 serves as a model, whereby the metaphors of laminar and turbulent flows take precedence. >>

Noah Chuipka. Musico-acoustic Depictions of Laminar and Turbulent Flows in Ligeti Piano Etude No. 9 and a Novel Method of Analysis. arXiv: 2306.10093v1 [cs.SD]. Jun 17, 2023. 

Also: music, jazz, turbulence, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, music, jazz, turbulence


lunedì 28 agosto 2017

# astro: the binary black hole spin distribution, a sort of cosmic estension of Mr. Jelly Roll

<< The direct detection of gravitational waves from merging binary black holes opens up a window into the environments in which binary black holes form. One signature of such environments is the angular distribution of the black hole spins >>

AA << report that, if the magnitudes of the black hole spins are allowed to extend to high values, the effective spins for these systems indicate a 0.015 odds ratio against an aligned angular distribution compared to an isotropic one [isotropic spin orientation: the spins of the black holes are randomly oriented with respect to the orbit of the binary system]. When considering the effect of ten additional detections, this odds ratio decreases to 2.9 × 10−7 against alignment >>

Will M. Farr, Simon Stevenson, et al. Distinguishing spin-aligned and isotropic black hole populations with gravitational waves. Nature 548, 426–429 Aug 24, 2017 doi: 10.1038/nature23453

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v548/n7668/full/nature23453.html

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01385

<< Amico, qualunque  cosa suonerai . . . suonerai Jelly Roll >>

Jelly Roll Morton (opp. Mouton, alias di Ferdinand La Menthe, opp. La Mothe, New Orleans, 20 ott ~1885 - Los Angeles, 10 luglio 1941, ~56a).  Ref: Alan Lomax. "Mister Jelly Roll". Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York (1950);  cit. in: Arrigo Polillo, "JAZZ". Oscar Saggi Mondadori. (1977):315,325.

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/search?q=jelly+roll

domenica 13 novembre 2022

# life: Banksy, Banksy type dancers

<< Graffiti of a woman in a leotard doing a handstand is seen on the wall of a destroyed building in Borodyanka on Friday in Kyiv Region, Ukraine. Banksy later confirmed on their Instagram account that this piece was their work. Ed Ram/Getty Images >>️

<< Other new murals with a similar style have been spotted in the area and are suspected to have been created by Banksy, but the British artist has not publicly claimed credit. >>

Ashley Ahn. A new Banksy mural adorns a destroyed building in Ukraine. Nov 12, 2022. 10:56 AM ET.


Also

(-) 'danza' in Notes
(quasi-stochastic poetry)

(-) 'dance' in FonT

(-) 'vladimir' in FonT

Keywords: life, art, arts, paintings, music, jazz, dance, dancer





giovedì 3 gennaio 2019

# phys: the strange world of quantum mechanics

<< In the normal world, an object such as a baseball can only be in one place at one time. But in the quantum world, a particle such as an electron can occupy an infinite number of places at the same time, existing in what physicists call a superposition of multiple states. >>

<< in the quantum world, two individual particles, such as photons can be entangled, such that the mere act of sensing one photon with a detector instantaneously forces the other photon, no matter how far away, to assume a particular state. >>

<< evidence is mounting from the world of plant physiology that some biological processes that rely on quantum superposition occur at normal temperatures, raising the possibility that unimaginably strange world of quantum mechanics may indeed intrude into the every day workings of other biological systems, such as our nervous systems. >>

<< Evolution, in its relentless quest to engineer the most energy-efficient life forms, appears to have ignored physicists’ belief that useful quantum effects can’t happen in the warm, wet environments of biology. >>

Eric Haseltine. Why You Should Care About Quantum Neuroscience.
Hints of an incredibly exciting future. Dec 31, 2018

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/long-fuse-big-bang/201812/why-you-should-care-about-quantum-neuroscience

FonT

davanti a una immagine di "enzima allosterico" qualsiasi bravo scientist sa immediatamente con cosa avra' a che fare: avra' a che fare con il caos, vale a dire con oggetti che possono generare dinamiche senz'altro confinate purtuttavia bizzarre, jazz, funky, fuzzy; invece davanti a concetti quali i due citati sopra (superposition, entanglement), e gli ipotetici effetti immaginabili all'interno di strutture biologiche, neurobiologiche, informatiche, ho idea che chiunque potrebbe sentirsi vagamente disorientato (qui si sottolinea "vagamente") ...

lunedì 27 febbraio 2023

# life: a proposito di bizzarri scenari, qui una transizione 'a gradino' di ipotetico scenario22


Congo Square, New Orleans (img from web).  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Square

Una senz'altro immaginifica transizione di un sistema anch'esso senz'altro immaginifico "3vs3 palle

qui potrebbe verificarsi una improvvisa mutazione "3vs3" verso un sistema auto- riconfigurato in "4vs2" palle.

(-) In prima approx il sistema destrogiro "4palle", sebbene caotico,  quasisticastico, potrebbe dimostrare chance di creativa stabilizzazione, anche a medio-lungo termine, anche grazie a non del tutto improbabili episodi di drammatiche funzionali fagocitosi (e.g. nelle forme predatorie del cannibalismo/ auto- cannibalismo, anche orgiastico estremo) al proprio interno.

(-) Il sistema levogiro "2palle" potrebbe invece lui medesimo risultare vincente sull'altro destrogiro nel caso riuscisse nell'im.probabile stabilizzazione,  ristrutturazione funzionale - dimostrando pubblicamente non banali capacità di risoluzione/ reimpostazione di problemi - perciò animandosi in modalità attrattive, coagulative su una parte significativa del 50% di quelle moltitudini verosimilmente costituite da entità fluttuanti nella solitaria condizione di pulviscoli erratici in emarginata sublimazione.

L'immagini, senz'altro campate in aria purtuttavia intriganti:  'episodi di drammatiche funzionali fagocitosi', 'cannibalismo, auto-cannibalismo anche orgiastico estremo' e 'solitaria condizione di pulviscoli erratici in emarginata sublimazione' meriterebbero una serie di poetiche, quasistocastiche perfino

ma mi astengo.

# life: a proposito di bizzarri scenari, qui un ipotetico scenario22 dipinto dal reale ... FonT.  Oct 17,  2022.

Also

<< Tornando all'analogia con la fisica, il potere, come l'energia, muta continuamente di forma >>. In: Onda anti rumore. Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry). April 21, 2005.

keyword 'dance' | 'dancing' in FonT


keyword 'danza' | 'danzant*' in Notes
(quasi-stochastic poetry)



Keywords: life, gst, Congo Square, danza, dance, jazz, Jelly Roll, transition, three-body




martedì 7 febbraio 2017

# n-trade: don't worry Donald #Potus, by Jack

<< Jack Ma, who met US President Donald Trump last month and announced his company Alibaba would help create one million jobs in the United States, added: "The world needs globalisation, it needs trade".  Speaking in Melbourne at the launch of Alibaba's Australia and New Zealand headquarters, he said: "Everybody is concerned about trade wars. If trade stops, war starts >>

Samuel Osborne. 'If  trade stops, war starts' Alibaba founder who visited Donald Trump warns. 'The world needs  globalisation, it needs trade'. 6 Feb. 2017.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/jack-ma-alibaba-donald-trump-trade-war-jobs-a7564021.html

Jack  Ma, il fondatore  del colosso Alibaba, avverte  Donald Trump: “Se si ferma il commercio inizia  la  guerra”. 6 Feb. 2017

http://m.huffpost.com/it/entry/14630688?utm_hp_ref=italy&ir=Italy

FonT: i sistemi "chiusi" sono fragili, deboli, instabili, involuti ...  difficili da realizzare e impossibili da stabilizzare ... vale per i  contesti naturali, vale per le societa' umane .... ormai dovrebbe rendersene conto chiunque ...

more:

<< Amico, qualunque  cosa suonerai . . . suonerai Jelly Roll >> Jelly Roll Morton (opp. Mouton, alias di Ferdinand La Menthe, opp. La Mothe, New Orleans, 20 ott ~1885 - Los Angeles, 10 luglio 1941, ~56a).  Ref: Alan Lomax. "Mister Jelly Roll". Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York (1950);  cit. in: Arrigo Polillo."JAZZ". Oscar Saggi Mondadori. (1977):315,325.

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2007/01/2113-soniche-ramulo.html

mercoledì 6 aprile 2022

# astro: going beyond a performance by Frank Zappa (or a speech by – for example – a political entity), two speeds of sound found on Mars

AA << find that atmospheric sounds extend measurements of pressure variations down to 1,000 times smaller scales than ever observed before, revealing a dissipative regime extending over 5 orders of magnitude in energy. Using point sources of sound (Ingenuity rotorcraft, laser-induced sparks), (AA) highlight two distinct values for the speed of sound that are ~10 m/s apart below and above 240 Hz, a unique characteristic of low-pressure CO2-dominated atmosphere. (They) also provide the acoustic attenuation with distance above 2 kHz, allowing to elucidate the large contribution of the CO2 vibrational relaxation in the audible range. >>

Maurice, S., Chide, B., Murdoch, N. et al. In situ recording of Mars soundscape. Nature. doi: 10.1038/ s41586-022-04679-0. Apr 1, 2022. 


<< All of these factors would make it difficult for two people to have a conversation only five meters (16 feet) apart >> Sylvestre Maurice.

Juliette Collen and Daniel Lawler. First audio recorded on Mars reveals two speeds of sound. Phys.org. Apr 1, 2022. 


NASA Perseverance Rover Captures 
Puff, Whir, Zap Sounds from Mars 


Also

Frank Zappa 


image from  


keywords: astro, mars, acoustics, sound, speed of sound, dissipative regimes, music, jazz, freejazz









venerdì 2 luglio 2021

# life: Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) revisited (precarious attempt to revisit)

Even the impulsive epiphany of Mr. Grillo @beppe_grillo and Mr. Conte @GiuseppeConteIT reminded me of the intriguing story of MJQ ...

2124 - attrattore cooperativo bipolare (nell' elastici spigoli). Mar 05, 2007. (quasi-stochastic poetry)


The point is that MJQ were talented professionals in (conversational, cooperative, hacking-craking) chaotic phrasing ...

instead this just feels like unstructured chaos

Jason Horowitz. How Giuseppe Conte of Italy Went From Irrelevant to Irreplaceable. NYT. Aug. 29, 2019.


Conte-Grillo, what are the points of conflict that split the M5S. June 27, 2021. 


PostNote

Apropos of the "ulteriore elemento di impredicibilità" (further element of unpredictability)   https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2007/03/2124-attrattore-cooperativo-bipolare.html   the inkling about the image of an acyclic bipolar avatar generated and controlled by an artificial intelligence - characterized by sufficient degrees of freedom and self-maintenance - could, hypothetically, create and modulate (unexpected) novelties, not necessarily at least in a first approximation, with  harmful-self-damaging outcomes. 


mercoledì 7 giugno 2017

# s-game: on inspired, then systematic and bounded, generation of "errors" ...

<< When a musician improvises, “the prefrontal cortex is engaged, and one of its functions is conscious self-monitoring, censoring your output (..) That area of the brain is shutting down >>

<< Improvising well means a musician has to shut up the part of the brain that would typically be worried about “wrong” notes, enabling him or her to more easily let go >> Charles Limb

Kristen Page-Kirby. Jazz improvisation (and other types, too) will change your brain. June 1, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2017/06/01/how-messing-around-clears-your-head/

Sound Health: Music and the Mind — The Future of Music and the Mind.  June 3, 2017.

http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/NRMHG

also

2117 - la destra e la sinistra di Hines. Feb. 02, 2007

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2007/02/2117-la-destra-e-la-sinistra-di-hines.html

2124 - attrattore cooperativo bipolare (nell' elastici spigoli). Mar.  05, 2007

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2007/03/2124-attrattore-cooperativo-bipolare.html

"polillo" in:

http://inkpi.blogspot.it

lunedì 7 febbraio 2022

# life; Hollywood (movies) revisited, you must be aware of the fact that Alien Entities will share our planet with us and, marginally, ...


Hollywood (movies) revisited, you must be aware of the fact that Alien Entities will share our planet with us and, marginally, will modify our neurobiology with physiological 'magic strings' virus-injected (*) to 'gently' subdue us.  Are you ready for all this, anzicheforse?

(*) virus-injected approach, motivated by the fact that Terrestrials use NOT to attack retroviruses with 'pastroky' vaccines ...

Also

<< David (Leonard David) said that extraterrestrials, however, could be aware of us and be deliberately ignoring our planet, which would represent an equally devastating blow to the human sense of self-importance. >>
<< We could be the dolts of the universe. >> Leonard David. 
 UFOs ‘Something’s coming’: is America finally ready to take UFOs seriously? Adam Gabbatt in New York
@adamgabbatt Sat 5 Feb 2022 08.00 GMT 


Also


keyword 'oops' in FonT


keyword 'magic string' in FonT


Also

Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Astronomer, the scientific consultant of the U.S. Air Force Project Sign (1948), Project Grudge (1949), Blue Book (1952–1969).


PS:  io non sono mai stato testimone di alieni o di manifestazioni di entità aliene. Tuttavia, forse (qui sottolineo forse), potrei averne frequentata una per decenni. Mia madre era per me una incognita; beveva l'essenziale, non fumava, non dormiva, mangiava poco, non si ammalava, era sempre in energico movimento. Passati i novanta anni di età - grondante di sudore, dopo avere trascorso, giusto per passare il tempo, un paio di ore a stirare nel mezzogiorno della calura agostana riminese - qualche volta l'ho sentita pronunciare la frase: "andrò a coricarmi perchè mi sento un po' stanca". Quando lei entrava in una stanza io immaginavo che virus e batteri sarebbero fuggiti terrorizzati per cercare di evitare quello che di lì a poco sarebbe potuto succedere. Lei era impermeabile a qualsivoglia ideologia o argomentazione che non si traducesse in immediata modalità operativa. Quale (apparente) paradosso, per lei era anche normale individuare e ribaltare immediatamente i punti chiave in merito a qualsiasi argomento. Anche se non lo dava a vedere, era una persona sostanzialmente avversa a qualsivoglia autorità imposta. Ricordo bene che le uniche tesi che non aggrediva erano quelle che trattavano la musica blues, il jazz, il rock - forse perchè intuiva che tali approcci fossero per sè stessi fondamentalmente auto-ribaltanti - e la chimica che, anche quando poteva contenere aspetti meramente speculativi, fantasmatici, lei avrebbe potuto comunque scorgere qualche indispensabile componente operativa osservazionale- sperimentale. 

Per questa sua unicità, dall'età di dieci anni fino ai quindici, ho avuto il sospetto che lei potesse essere il prodotto di qualche ignoto esperimento alieno. 

A distanza di decenni penso che mia madre, sebbene da bambina le avessero imposto di conseguire la sola istruzione elementare - come peraltro molte della sua generazione, sarebbe stata (terrestre o aliena) un valido 'naturale' co-addestratore nel team di una scuola Shaolin.

keywords: UFO, UFOs, UAP, EBE ,
AATIP, UAPTF ,OVNI , virus,  magic string, aliens, esobio, exobiology



martedì 21 marzo 2023

# behav: even the first asynchronous decisions might tend to be correct and exhibit information cascades.


<< It is usually assumed that information cascades are most likely to occur when an early but incorrect opinion spreads through the group. Here (AA) analyse models of confidence-sharing in groups and reveal the opposite result: simple but plausible models of naïve Bayesian decision-making exhibit information cascades when group decisions are synchronous; however, when group decisions are asynchronous, the early decisions reached by Bayesian decision makers tend to be correct, and dominate the group consensus dynamics. Thus early decisions actually rescue the group from making errors, rather than contribute to it. (AA) explore the likely realism of our assumed decision-making rule with reference to the evolution of mechanisms for aggregating social information, and known psychological and neuroscientific mechanisms. >>️

Andreagiovanni Reina, Thomas Bose, et al.  Asynchrony rescues statistically-optimal group decisions from information cascades through emergent leaders.  bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/ 2022.04.05.487127. Feb16, 2023.

Also

'asynchronous' in FonT
'game' in FonT
'behav' in FonT

Keywords: behavior, behaviour, game, decision-making, synchronous- asynchronous group decisions, social interactions, information cascade, life, jazz


giovedì 22 settembre 2022

# life: apropos of quasi-stochastic (bizarre) landscapes in high-dimension, a case of double RAG-time inside a black hole with vortices

Here a hypotetical bizarre scenario of coexistence of double RAG-time (RAG: Ralph, Al, George) inside a black hole with vortices:

(1) 
Maurizio Belpietro.Sorprese in vista. Occhio alla strana coppia Conte D'Alema. La verità. anno vii n 258 pg 1. 19 set 2022.


(2) 

Andrea Pertici. Un soccorso centrista alla maggioranza dei due terzi?  
huffingtonpost.it. 18 Set 2022  17:08


Also

keyword 'RAG' in Notes
(quasi-stochastic poetry)

keyword 'RAG' in FonT

black holes (as Q-ball-type saturons) could admit multi-vortex dynamics.
FonT. Sep 19, 2022.  

PS: really intriguing the image of a black hole with vortices ...

Keywords: life, jazz, RAG-time, RAGtime, black hole, vortex, vortices, vortexes, vorticity



venerdì 1 gennaio 2016

# rmx-p-it: italian political jazz fusion ...

Beppe Grillo, comico, fondatore e leader del  partito politico italiano Movimento Cinque Stelle - per l'analisi di James Politi (FT.com)  secondo partito politico italiano rappresentato da classe dirigente matura per il governo - cita la logica simbolica in Isaac Asimov ...

<< Vedete, esiste una branca del sapere umano, conosciuta sotto il nome di logica simbolica, che può essere usata per eliminare tutte le parole inutili che rendono oscuro il linguaggio umano (...) >>

Isaac Asimov, "Parole fatte di niente",. in:  L'editoriale de "La Settimana", 01/01/2016

http://www.beppegrillo.it/m/

<< December 29, 2015 11:03 am

"Italy's Five Star Movement wants to be taken seriously"

James Politi in Rome

"Protest group has come a long way since its eccentric star and is now the country's second party" >>

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/45c62a88-99d9-11e5-9228-87e603d47bdc,Authorised=false.html

venerdì 16 aprile 2021

# life: non-human jazz from vibrant cobweb strings performed by a harp-like instrument

<< The spider lives in an environment of vibrating strings, (..) They don't see very well, so they sense their world through vibrations, which have different frequencies. (..) Such vibrations occur, for example, when the spider stretches a silk strand during construction, or when the wind or a trapped fly moves the web. (..) Webs could be a new source for musical inspiration that is very different from the usual human experience, >>️ Markus Buehler️

AA << scanned a natural spider web with a laser to capture 2D cross-sections and then used computer algorithms to reconstruct the web's 3D network. The team assigned different frequencies of sound to strands of the web, creating "notes" that they combined in patterns based on the web's 3D structure to generate melodies. The researchers then created a harp-like instrument and played the spider web music in several live performances around the world. >>️

Making music from spider webs. ACS - Am Chem Soc. Apr 12, 2021


Isabelle Su, Zhao Qin, et al. Imaging and analysis of a three-dimensional spider web architecture. J R Soc Interface. 15(146): 20180193. doi: 10.1098/ rsif.2018.0193. Sep 19, 2018. 








sabato 26 dicembre 2015

# rmx: ... just a jazz peak

<< I'd like to apologise to the lady I just called by mistake saying 'Hello, is this planet Earth?' - not a prank call...just a wrong number! >>

3:04 PM - 24 Dec 2015

https://mobile.twitter.com/astro_timpeake/status/680162260946423808