The First 20 Hours - How to Learn Anything
Discover a practical approach to rapidly acquire new skills in just 20 hours. Learn techniques to deconstruct complex tasks, overcome barriers, and accelerate your learning process.
The Creativity Process Behind GRIS
Explore the creative journey behind GRIS, a wordless narrative game. Discover artistic tools, design challenges, and innovative approaches used to craft an emotionally engaging experience accessible to all players.
The Neuroscience of Psychedelic Drugs, Music and Nostalgia
Explore the profound connections between music, memory, and psychedelics, and their potential to treat mood disorders and enhance self-discovery through neuroscientific research.
Classical Keys to Overcoming Depression
Discover how classical music, particularly Schubert's compositions, can provide solace and healing through a concert pianist's personal journey and performance.
Jazz Stories of Love, Strength, Hope and Healing
Trumpeter Dominick Farinacci shares inspiring jazz performances, blending music with stories of resilience and emotional healing.
How One Musician Is Reimagining Hospital Sounds
Exploring the impact of hospital sounds on patient well-being and innovative approaches to create a more soothing auditory environment for healing.
Can Cool Jazz Raise Your Temperature?
Explore the captivating fusion of styles as Howard University's Afro Blue ensemble creates an acapella jazz tapestry, blending voices into a unique and intriguing musical experience.
To Get to the Future, Can We Reinvent the Past?
Explore Kishi Bashi's unique multilayered violin-techno-pop music, inspired by the Japanese concept of "ichi-go ichi-e" - each moment is unique.
Spectacular, Glorious, Musical Wizardry
Jacob Collier delivers a mesmerizing five-song performance, showcasing his exceptional vocal, piano, and guitar skills. The set includes a premiere of his new original track and a stunning rendition of "Danny Boy."
The World's Hidden Music Rituals
Explore hidden music rituals worldwide through the lens of a nomadic filmmaker, followed by a performance from a jazz icon. Discover how film and music can offer new perspectives on diverse cultures.
How I Started Writing Songs Again
Sting shares his journey through writer's block, finding inspiration in shipyard workers' stories for his musical, and performs songs including "Message in a Bottle."
Music and Emotion Through Time
Explore the evolution of classical music through written notation, recording, and remixing in this captivating overview by renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.
Alda's Dynamic Relationship with Clojure
Explore the intertwined history of Alda music programming language and Clojure, discussing their complex relationship, ZeroMQ, Open Sound Control, and native executable creation.
Musical Steganography - Hiding Things in Music
Explore techniques for concealing messages in music, from Bach's compositions to modern digital methods. Learn to apply steganographic principles using TidalCycles and Haskell.
Better Spotify Playlists through Discrete Optimization
Explore algorithmic playlist creation using music theory and optimization techniques to generate cohesive, mood-setting Spotify playlists. Includes live demos and audience participation.
Making Machines That Make Music
Explore the journey of modeling and generating Carnatic music using machine learning. Discover data collection techniques, raga identification, and automatic transcription, with demos comparing machine and human music.
Generating Music From Emotion - and Other Experiments
Explore innovative techniques for generating music based on emotional patterns in books, videos, and films, using sentiment analysis and other non-musical data as foundations for musical storytelling.
African Polyphony and Polyrhythm
Exploring computational models for African music, bridging ethnomusicology and programming to preserve and recreate traditional central African polyphony and polyrhythm.
A History of Programming Languages for 2 Voices
A musical journey through programming language history, exploring parallels between significant developments in coding and recorded music to deepen appreciation for both fields.
From Survival to Thrival through Music
Explore the transformative power of music as a vital tool for healing, recovery, and personal growth, featuring inspiring stories and insights from a music composer.
Closer Encounters - Werkstatt
Entschlüsselung einer musikalischen Botschaft und Produktion eines Community Tracks durch den CCCHOIR und das ORCCCHESTRA. Gemeinsame Chorprobe und Aufnahme über Jamulus für ein kollaboratives Musikprojekt.