This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here’s how each of them ends: Sing it loud—… One implication from that intensive Hong Kong experiment: most karaoke singers manage to keep the quality of their singing fairly constant, no matter what. Kinetic excitement— … Then the word “kinetics” takes centre stage, […]
BBC News produced this short documentary about the birth of karaoke. It centers on Daisuke Inoue, the person most often credited with inventing karaoke. (Many other people claim credit, too, and it’s entirely possible that several of them did indeed each independently invent the basics, as happens with many technical innovations!) The 2004 Ig Nobel […]
CBS Sunday Morning celebrates the invention of karaoke—and the awarding, in 2004, of the Ig Nobel Peace Prize “for creating an entirely new way for people to tolerate each other”: Inventions and Inventors, in Song and History Karaoke is in many ways an invention of, by, and perhaps for the people. Since the awarding of […]
Karaoke has penetrated to so many levels of society that it has reached even the some of the scientists who present data at scientific conferences. This study, by Supper, tells how that came about: “Data Karaoke: Sensory and Bodily Skills in Conference Presentations,” Alexandra Supper, [pictured here], Volume 24, Issue 4, 2015, pages 436-457. (Thanks to Tom Gill […]
