How precisely does an acoustic guitar or violin produce its sweet sound? There is a simple, centuries-old way to literally "see" the vibrational patterns that cause the guitar to resonate and produce ...

For Annika Socolofsky, the realms of art and science aren’t mutually exclusive. Socolofsky, assistant professor of composition and faculty coach for CU Boulder SoundWorks, has solid footing in both ...

The next Northern Illinois University STEM Cafe will be on "Good Vibrations: The Physics of Musical Instruments" from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 23, at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Hwy., ...

"I benefited from my dedicated teachers at Purdue, where my time as a student prepared me extremely well in several ways." An expert in nanoscale physics, musical acoustics, and the physics of musical ...

In 1922 a young man, C Subrahmanya Ayyar, gave his first solo performance playing the violin at the Presidency College, Madras. The soiree was followed by a lecture by Ayyar’s younger brother on the ...

At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

Binghamton University Professor Jeff Barker discusses "The Physics of Music" at the Kopernik Observatory and Science Center, in Vestal. Barker discussed why musical instruments sound the way they do, ...

"Western research has focused so much on familiar orchestral instruments, but other musical cultures use instruments that, because of their shape and physics, are what we would call 'inharmonic'. The ...