What does it mean to be creative? Debates around the exact definition of creativity can take up an entirely separate article, but a leading authority on the topic, Margaret Ann Boden, breaks down the ...
How your brain responds to music listening can reveal whether you have received musical training, according to new research. By applying methods of computational music analysis and machine learning on ...
You, too, can compose like Bach. Or rather, artificial intelligence can compose like Bach. Or at least, that’s the premise of Thursday’s delightful Google Doodle, which promises to take any two-bar ...
For the past two centuries, composers, academics and fans of classical music have puzzled over Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, which he abandoned in 1822 after writing the first two movements. Why ...
All week this week, we've been exploring the process of composing for film. It's a series we're calling Scoring the Screen. (SOUNDBITE OF MONTAGE OF FILM SCORES) SIEGEL: One question we are asking ...
Would you give AI-generated music a chance? Or do you still prefer music with a pulse? In today’s story, a woman shares how she refused to support her good friend’s “AI music career” despite her being ...
The second Tuesday of October is Ada Lovelace Day, a day first founded in 2009 by Suw Charman-Anderson to celebrate the achievements of women in science. It’s named after Ada Lovelace, who is widely ...
Eight-time Oscar winning composer and lyricist Alan Menken is set to pen the music and score to Skydance Animation‘s upcoming musical fantasy Spellbound. Menken will team with lyricist and frequent ...
The Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer, producer and songwriter T Bone Burnett will compose the music for the world premiere of Call Me Izzy, starring Jean Smart. The show's 12-week limited engagement ...