Scientists prove it's the same old song – only louder

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If you suspect that songs today tend to sound the same, it turns out you're right. A group of Spanish scientists looked at a huge database of songs and analyzed their trends, publishing their results in the scientific journal Nature. What they found was proof positive that, over the last few decades, songs have progressively gotten louder, decreased their pitch transitions, and generally become more homogeneous... Continue Reading Scientists prove it's the same old song – only louder

Section: Music

Tags: Columbia University, Music, Sound, Volume

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