Facing the music.

A Review of Economic Properties of Music Distribution

Music industry is “facing the music” now. Big stakeholders try very hard to maintain their positions while other players see opportunities in the advent of peerto-peer networks. Music, as a kind of representative information good, deserves its economic properties to be examined and made explicit. This paper reviews various aspects of the literature covering information goods, tries to extend th...

(inter)facing the music The history of the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument

Stardom, Peer-to-peer and the Socially Optimal Distribution of Music

Music industry is “facing the music” now. Big stakeholders try very hard to maintain their positions while other players see opportunities in the advent of peer-to-peer networks. Music, as a kind of representative information good, deserves its economic properties to be examined and made explicit. Using the familiar Hotelling (1929) model of product differentiation, I show that the current musi...

Reinventing Audio and Music Computation for Many-Core Processors

This text serves as an introduction to a problem facing the field of computer music. Multi-core and many-core personal and mobile computers will play a major role in the future of audio and music computation, but it is far from clear how that future will evolve. The hope is that this panel will shed some insight concerning the path to our parallel programming future.

Effect of Light and Music on Growth Performance and Survival Rate of Goldfish (Carassius auratus)

 Environmental enrichment is one of the methods for improving fish growth performance. In the present trial, the effects of both light color and music on growth performance and survival of goldfish (Carassius auratus) (initial mean weight: 4.15±0.08 g) were investigated for 2 months. Two light color treatments (red light and white light) and three music treatments (M0: without music, M30:30 min...

بررسی تأثیر 3 نوع موسیقی بر عملکرد حافظه کاری دانشجویان علوم پزشکی شهر تهران

Introduction: Cognitive ergonomics is a branch of ergonomics science that investigates the impact of environmental conditions on subjective and objective individual performance. Music is known as an effective environmental factor on human performance. The aim of present study is to examine the effect of three different types of music tempo. Method: In this study, students were randomly divided...