Listening to music while you work “significantly impairs” creativity. That was the conclusion of a study published earlier this year in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology that examined the ...

It’s been a long day. You had a thousand things on your to-do list, and you got most of them checked off. It’s time to “chill.” You lean back in your easy chair and select your favorite playlist (for ...

Arguably, one of music’s most salient characteristics is the impact it has on our emotions. What if this impact can be used in an intentional way to boost creative flow? I had an interesting ...

What is creativity? There are several different answers provided by different disciplines to the question of what creativity is, but if we consider the issue with reference to this example, it can be ...

Music, like most forms of creative endeavour, has always had an intimate relationship with technology. Over the centuries, pianos, harpsichords, organs, and other instruments could be seen as machines ...

Most people know intuitively that music can be a good way to pump yourself up or get the creative juices flowing — and a new study brings some scientific evidence to the connection. It finds that ...

Not only did the researchers discover that music fails to inspire more imaginative thinking, they found that it has the opposite effect. Credit: Photo by Matthew Payne on Unsplash The commonly held ...

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Chances are, if you work in an office you don’t have Spotify on full blast. Same goes if you’re a student cramming in a quiet library. Many studies have shown that silence is golden if your goal is to ...

Previously, the idea behind music and work has been that music can energize, calm and focus you. You simply have to find the “right” music and pair it with certain types of tasks (e.g., instrumental ...

Music and artificial intelligence (AI) both provide modern students with tools for exploration and creativity, says math and computer science major Brian Liu ’25, who is also a gifted concert pianist.

Google GOOG recently announced the creation of a new AI system, MusicLM, which is capable of generating music in any genre using a mere text description. TechCrunch reports that, fearing the risks, ...