My ANU colleague John Rayner’s excellent recent article on the physics of music seemed to touch a nerve with the readership of The Conversation. Although beautifully framed by the personal and ...

To the memory of Leonard Bernstein, the greatest musical educator of all time, a great conductor and composer who loved jazz and whose televised lectures brought a whole generation of listeners into ...

Surprising connections between very different areas of physics and unexpected spin-offs from theory were explored by quantum physicist Prof. Sir Michael Berry in a lecture entitled "How quantum ...

Technology is not always about getting more controlled, more digital and more logical. And a mad new music program that's just launched is a brilliant demonstration of that… and why it matters.

Vanderbilt physics professor Norman Tolk is passionate about music, physics and faith. “Surely, He hath borne our griefs…” The words, somber and sincere, are joined to like melody and lifted into the ...

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Stephon Alexander draws on his background in music and his interactions with jazz performers to help him “compose” physics models in string theory. String theorist Stephon Alexander balances a dual ...

Brian Holmes, decades ago, was faced with a choice: Music or physics? “I was a musician first,” he explained during a recent phone call from his San Jose home. “Then a physicist. I had a hard time ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- When you think of the intersection of science and music, you might think of Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" – that song consisting of creatively-reordered recitation of all the elements ...

The medieval concept of “music of the spheres” held that the movement of the celestial bodies—what we now describe as astrophysics—was, at root, musical. Musical meaning is tantalizing and elusive.