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Asked by anon-186965 to Stewart, Marton on 6 Nov 2018.
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Marton Olbei answered on 6 Nov 2018: last edited 6 Nov 2018 4:46 pm
My favourite song is in Hungarian, it’s from a band from the same city I’m from (Kispal es a Borz – Zsakmanyallat).
Science definitely can help make music! Just think of an electric guitar – you stroke a chord, and those vibrations turn into an electric signal travelling through the cable plugged into the instrument all the way to the amplifier. There would be no rock and roll without our knowledge of electricity and all the engineering disciplines that were built around it.
Music is really interesting from a biological and cultural point of view as well – did you know that other animals don’t perceive music the way we do? For example where a rhesus monkey would only hear noise, we hear rhythm and melody. We are still not sure why we turned out this way, but as far as we know basically all human cultures produce some kind of music, and have done so for a long time. It might be a truly universal human trait. It’s so interesting!
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Stewart Martin-Haugh answered on 8 Nov 2018:
My favourite song at the moment (it always changes!) is:
A lot of electronic music depends on advances in computer processing of signals. Coincidentally, I really like electronic music, and I do computer processing of signals from particle detectors.
One of the first famous pieces of electronic music is the Doctor Who theme tune:
In those days, you needed an entire workshop to make these kinds of sounds. Nowadays, you can do this in a bedroom with a laptop. I think that’s really exciting – you can make sounds that were impossible to make in the past.Similarly, I now have more computing power in my (not very good) smartphone than was needed to take people to the moon. We’re only seeing the beginning of what we can do with computers.
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