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Insights Contributor: Roland Kuit

Insights Contributor: Roland Kuit

From his childhood, Roland Kuit has always been fascinated by the phenomenon of sound. Surrounded with instruments like a grand piano, violins, double bass, trombone and guitars, he started to experiment with these sounds and the tape recorder. He was

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Insights Contributor: Scott L. Miller

Insights Contributor: Scott L. Miller

Scott Miller is a composer and performer of works described as “high adventure avant garde music of the best sort” (Classical-Modern Music Review). He got his first Capybara in June 2001, when he forever quit playing golf and devoted 8 hours a day for the

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Insights Contributor: Jon Bellona

Insights Contributor: Jon Bellona

Jon Bellona is an intermedia artist/composer who specializes in digital technologies. Jon’s work explores the enactive body and physical embodiment in music, especially live performance of electronic instruments. Additional research delves into broader themes of data-driven music and interdisciplinary collaboration.

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Insights Contributor: Barton McLean

Insights Contributor: Barton McLean

Having been taught and mentored by Henry Cowell and having developed his electronic music techniques in the studios under the direction of Ianis Xenakis, Barton McLean has experienced both the academic and the professional worlds of the composer, having had

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    on 15 April 2026 at 20:29

    A new kind of bass trap! Low-frequency sound absorption achieved by replacing the high-stiffness neck of a Helmholtz resonator w/ a soft, viscoelastic cylindrical shell for tunable viscoelastic damping. Greater than 97% absorption of 227 to 329 Hz with deep-subwavelength thickness (λ/15 at 227 Hz). [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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    on 15 April 2026 at 01:29

    Bumble bees learned to discriminate rhythmic patterns; generalized those patterns to slower & faster rates; and transferred learning of 2 vibrational patterns to their equivalent flashing light patterns. Suggests that bumble bees have truly flexible rhythm perception. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz2894

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