"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.

LEGO Sunn O))). Want.

[via Juha van ‘t Zelfde]

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)

noiseforairports:

Drones play the James Bond theme. This is amazing.

(via explore)

The Music Machine, 1971

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

(via Jamie McKelvie)

"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.]

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

(via fascinated)

(via SF Mixtape Society annielin)

(via ethanhein)

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

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

(via Sumit)