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Artificial Intelligence Helped Make the Coolest Song You've Heard This Week

Science Quickly

Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Machine-learning algorithms are getting so good that they can translate Western instruments into Thai ones with ease. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

0:05.8

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years.

0:11.0

Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program.

0:19.6

To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.j.p.

0:23.9

That's y-A-K-U-L-T-C-O-J-P.

0:28.4

When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt.

0:39.7

You're listening to Science Quickly.

0:40.9

I'm Alison Partial.

0:46.4

I'm going to play you a song,

0:48.5

and I'm willing to bet good money that you've never heard anything like it before.

1:16.4

Music like it before. So listening to this for the first time, I was intrigued and also baffled.

1:22.2

I was bopping my head to a beat that sounded pretty familiar, but those notes didn't sound familiar at all.

1:26.2

Are those notes I could even play if I sat down at my piano?

1:34.3

And the melody, I'm not even sure what instrument sounds like that.

1:44.8

As it turns out, no instrument sounds like that.

1:47.6

But if you happen to be familiar with music from Thailand or its national sport, Muay Thai boxing,

1:50.1

something about it may sound familiar.

2:00.0

For Thai listeners, it's like in this uncanny valley of familiarity but also foreignless.

2:10.6

If it makes you want to move, I have succeeded in connecting with you.

2:18.3

That's Lamtan-Hanoi-Hontracle. He's a music technologist and the brains behind this wholly new kind of music.

2:24.9

He was born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand. The nickname Hanoi is admittedly kind of confusing, given that that's the capital of Vietnam, but his parents just loved the city so much that they named their kid after it.

2:35.7

Hanoi is Thai, through and through.

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