The L.A. improv quintet made its first two LPs by remixing key moments from its gigs; now, on a pair of astonishing unedited ...

The goth / dark synth project from Nick Schubert and Nick Hoffmann is stuck in the past on this beautifully gloomy track off ...

*For years, conversations about autism and the arts have centered on inclusion. Jazz Hands for Autism is focused on something bigger: opportunity. That mission was on full display as the nonprofit ...

In a neuro-robotics lab at the University of Southern California, a small mechanical hand heard a melody for the first time and played it back in a single attempt, without any sheet music, pre-loaded ...

Coyotes howling. The steady buzz of cicadas. A downpour. A rocket launch. Each conjures a different image and emotion, and all are heard in University of Vermont’s newest, collaborative laboratory: ...

Some genius has taken an audio sample of the hum of a grocery store freezer, cleaned it up, and extended it into a 10-hour video. The freezer’s hum, variously compared to Brian Eno’s music and “an ...

A generation ago, you needed thousands of dollars' worth of gear to record a music album at a professional level—and that's without microphones, speakers, and other accessories. Now, digital audio ...

This study used deep neural networks (DNN) to reconstruct voice information (viz., speaker identity), from fMRI responses in the auditory cortex and temporal voice areas, and assessed the ...

We present MGM-Omni, an omni-chatbot capable of processing text, image, video, and speech inputs, and can generate both text and speech responses. Based on MiniGemini and MiniGemini v2 (Lyra), ...

Joint embedding spaces have significantly advanced music understanding and generation by linking text and audio through multimodal contrastive learning. However, these approaches face large memory ...

The grey wolf (Canis lupus) is a pivotal species for ecological studies. As a key participant in ecosystem processes, it also serves as a model for investigating social structure formation and ...

Early infant crying provides critical insights into neurodevelopment, with atypical acoustic features linked to conditions such as preterm birth. However, previous studies have focused on limited and ...