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Music, culture, and technology. This is the companion Tumblr to zed equals zee. Follow debcha on Twitter.

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Videos filmed by attendees at heavy metal concerts [7] highlight a collective phenomenon consisting of 101−102 participants commonly referred to as a mosh pit. In mosh pits, the participants (moshers) move randomly, colliding with one another in an undirected fashion (Fig. 1(B)). Qualitatively, this phenomenon resembles the kinetics of gaseous particles, even though moshers are self-propelled agents that experience dissipative collisions.

Silverberg et al., "Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts," 2013.

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LEGO Sunn O))). Want.

[via Juha van 't Zelfde]

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This might be my favourite table in a scientific article ever.

From this paper by Brian Whitman and Daniel Ellis. 

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Posted by @HugeAtomicFreak on Twitter, via @aanand.

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Getting kids started on the right note.

Buy here to support the Bob Moog Foundation.

Via Chelsey.

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The worldwide distribution of heavy metal.

(via Kyle Van Blerk)

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Drones play the James Bond theme. This is amazing.

(via explore)

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The Music Machine, 1971

Short National Research Council (of Canada) about one of the first interactive digital systems for music composition.

(via Jamie McKelvie)

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The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan areas show that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate. The effect is independent of divorce, southernness, poverty and gun availability.

From Stack and Gundlach, The Effect of Country Music in Suicide

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"AUDIO PHILOSOPHY: MAXIMUM VOLUME YIELDS MAXIMUM RESULTS"

Sunn O)))'s technical rider.

[Via Paul.]

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3D-printed acoustic amplifier for the iPhone. More at the Shapeways site.

(via fascinated)

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(via SF Mixtape Society annielin)

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Monolake (Robert Henke) enters the Loudness Wars and talks about mastering [45 secs].

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Adorable and beautiful cardboard models of vintage synths. See the full photoset.

(via Sumit)

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Dutch drum maestro Han Bennink plays a drumkit made of cheese.

Bennink drums cheese 2 (by squiddity of toronto)

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“This is a scarf I knitted based on a sample of the The Amen Break. I took an image of the waveform of the amen break and converted it into a knitting pattern, which I uploaded onto a hacked knitting machine. The knitting pattern repeats over and over the same way that the amen break sample gets looped in so many musical compositions.”

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