Music

As AI songs get harder to tell apart from human-made music, an older technology offers a revealing preview of the fight over artistry, labor and pay

Rhythmic tunes trigger synchronized eyeblinks and automatic bopping or swaying, new research suggests

Experimental composer Holly Herndon says this technology isn’t here to replace artists—and that the future of creativity belongs to collective intelligence

These caterpillars rely on ants to tend them, and they use a surprisingly complex sense of rhythm to make it happen

A personal experiment with the artificial intelligence music platform Suno’s latest model echoes a new preprint study. Most listeners can’t tell AI music from the real thing, but emotional resonance still demands a human story

Horror movie composers use musical tricks to hijack your nervous system and put you on edge

A museum exhibit in Australia lets visitors hear music generated by brain cells derived from the blood of a dead composer.

Musicologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand what turns speech into music.

Some songs get stuck in our head more than others, and scientists have uncovered what makes them so irresistible.

Two years of experimentation taught a Nashville guitarist not every musical myth makes sense

Songs and speech across cultures suggest music developed similar features around the world

What can singing tell us about how we’re wired—and how our ancestors evolved?