Wired reports on an experiment done by a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a composer at the University of Maryland to create music that monkeys will respond to. Apparently, just putting your iPod on shuffle leaves our simian friends indifferent, so the two recorded various forms of calls by tamarin monkeys, composed music employing certain tonalities found in those calls, then played the result for the monkeys and sat back to enjoy the results.
Archive for September 2nd, 2009
CD review: Band of Skulls
Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
No, this is not the new Jack White project (but man does it sound like it sometimes). Baby Darling Doll Face Honey is the debut album from the hyped English group Band of Skulls. The proceeds kick off with “Light of the Morning,” a grungy, bluesy track with a few twists away from the expected. It sets the tone for the second track, “Death By Diamonds and Pearls,” though perhaps a little too well, as the two songs are similar to a fault. Which raises the question: What does the rest of the disc hold?
