Will We Ever Run Out of New Music? ๐ถ
Explore whether humanity's endless creativity can keep producing new music or if we'll eventually run out of ideas.

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16.6M views โข Nov 20, 2012

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Links Below:
Axis of Awesome 4 Chords: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ
Interactive video demonstrating common meter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZqR_M20Y48
Everything is a Remix: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/
Stairway to Gilligan's Island: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTCYLbFxTpI
WeSauce: http://www.youtube.com/wesauce
JAKE CHUDNOW's channel: http://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow
Covered in Bees calculates the number of possible 5 minute CD-quality audio files: http://www.coveredinbees.org/node/264
ferrouslepidoptera calculation: http://everything2.com/title/How+many+melodies+are+there+in+the+universe%253F
yerricde calculates with only 3 note-lengths allowed per melody: http://everything2.com/title/Yes%21+We+have+no+bananas%21
Sounds Just Like: http://soundsjustlike.com/
songs that sound like other songs [StraightDope forum]: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=604234&page=2
Common Meter on TV Tropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CommonMeter
Compression and song enjoyabliility: http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/1122-what-makes-music-enjoyable.html
Compression and song enjoyability [PDF]: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1756-0500-4-9.pdf
My Sweet Lord vs He's So Fine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sweet_Lord#Plagiarism_suit
Why are octaves divided into 12 intervals: http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/Music/12Tone.htm
Follow Michael Stevens: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce
Links Below:
Axis of Awesome 4 Chords: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ
Interactive video demonstrating common meter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZqR_M20Y48
Everything is a Remix: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/
Stairway to Gilligan's Island: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTCYLbFxTpI
WeSauce: http://www.youtube.com/wesauce
JAKE CHUDNOW's channel: http://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow
Covered in Bees calculates the number of possible 5 minute CD-quality audio files: http://www.coveredinbees.org/node/264
ferrouslepidoptera calculation: http://everything2.com/title/How+many+melodies+are+there+in+the+universe%253F
yerricde calculates with only 3 note-lengths allowed per melody: http://everything2.com/title/Yes%21+We+have+no+bananas%21
Sounds Just Like: http://soundsjustlike.com/
songs that sound like other songs [StraightDope forum]: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=604234&page=2
Common Meter on TV Tropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CommonMeter
Compression and song enjoyabliility: http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/1122-what-makes-music-enjoyable.html
Compression and song enjoyability [PDF]: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1756-0500-4-9.pdf
My Sweet Lord vs He's So Fine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sweet_Lord#Plagiarism_suit
Why are octaves divided into 12 intervals: http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/Music/12Tone.htm
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