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Bountiful Noise, Nature
 









Excerpts: Whether in music or in nature, noise can be full of riches. The trick
is to recognize the treasures. (...) Drawing on musicology, statistics,
cognitive and evolutionary biology and acoustics, the series will help us
understand why most of Schoenberg's music is more challenging than that of his
contemporary and champion, Gustav Mahler - let alone the music of Johann
Sebastian Bach. But it will also remind us that none of these disciplines has
yet been able to answer the fundamental question: why does music have such power
over us? Nor can they explain how avant garde composers in the 1950s were able
to take noise itself and make something new and true with it.
Source: Bountiful Noise[
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7192/full/453134a.html ], DOI:
10.1038/453134a, Nature 453, 134, 08/05/08

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