> The observation that such music can delay host attack, reduce blood feeding, and disrupt mating provides new avenues for the development of music-based personal protective and control measures against Aedes-borne diseases.
And what about the effects of noise pollution on insect populations?
Im not much into the kids music these days, but I looked this one up on Youtube and I'll admit, if i had to listen to it, I'd reconsider coitus as well.
I am into good (read that, musical, non-repetitive, not mindlessly derivative) electronic music, and can't agree more. I tried to like Skrillex. I don't get it.
I prefer dancy and melodic electronic music, and tend to dislike drum-and-bass and dubstep, yet there was a short (several month) period where Skrillex caught me. In the 7 minute songs, it had just enough of the qualities that fit me
Above and Beyond, Odesza, Axwell, Steve Roach (if ambient is your thing), Kaskade, Daft Punk, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten.
By the way, by "non-repetitive" I don't mean no repetition at all, but that there is movement in the music. It may carry the same theme and beat, but it's evolving and going somewhere, and not just the same exact bar repeated 15 times in a row.
These artists have been highly influential back in the day (and still are), and covered/defined a wide spectrum of electronic music:
* Tangerine Dream
* Jean-Michel Jarre
* Kraftwerk
* Vangelis
* Klaus Schulze
Start there, explore. The Last.FM "similar to Jarre" page has a ton of great music and directions[1].
One-off recommendation: Tomáš Dvořák aka Floex. He wrote the Machinarium soundtrack, which is one of my most favorite electronic music albums of all time[2].
One sub-genre of electronic music that I've been enjoying lately is the growing synthwave (retrowave, chillwave, outrun, etc - they are not that different) scene, with artists like Timecop 1983, FM 84, Kavinsky, Miami Nights 1984, Mitch Murder, Le Matos, Dance with the Dead, Carpenter Brut, Gunship, Magic Sword, Power Glove, etc.
If you think that's something, try the Noisia remix. The Noisia remix makes the original sound like elevator music. It's a shame the paper didn't mention whether the Noisia remix had any effect on Aedes aegypti compared to the original :-)
loool: I shouted out loud laughing and all the kids and wife are around me, sleeping so well. Ok, i managed to cool down. Phew. One mosquito is still lone, bloodless and trying hip-hop tomorrow or 90s rave parties,
At least the chicks wore fat heeled boots instead of converse chucks and the guys took amphetamine instead of opoids. Neverless most have always gone home alone.
The article didn't mention anything about the volume at which they played the music. It'd be interesting to know because I live next to a lake and could benefit from less feeding mosquitoes!
Yeah this whole thing depends on volume. Obviously mosquitoes don't "listen" to music the same way we do. So effectively electronic dance music at a large volume becomes pulsating waves of air pressure. Relative to their size this could be quite disturbing if not destructive. A similar article written for humans might be "large scale detonations at close range results in blast waves which reduce reproduction in humans"
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Worldly: Thievery Coporation, Thunderball
Midtempo Pretty Lights, The Polish Ambassador, Defunk, most people who were on a PLMovement podcast (https://soundcloud.com/plmovement)
Melodic DnB: High Contrast, Nu:tone, Calibre
Trippy Bass: Tipper, AtYya
By the way, by "non-repetitive" I don't mean no repetition at all, but that there is movement in the music. It may carry the same theme and beat, but it's evolving and going somewhere, and not just the same exact bar repeated 15 times in a row.
* Tangerine Dream
* Jean-Michel Jarre
* Kraftwerk
* Vangelis
* Klaus Schulze
Start there, explore. The Last.FM "similar to Jarre" page has a ton of great music and directions[1].
One-off recommendation: Tomáš Dvořák aka Floex. He wrote the Machinarium soundtrack, which is one of my most favorite electronic music albums of all time[2].
One sub-genre of electronic music that I've been enjoying lately is the growing synthwave (retrowave, chillwave, outrun, etc - they are not that different) scene, with artists like Timecop 1983, FM 84, Kavinsky, Miami Nights 1984, Mitch Murder, Le Matos, Dance with the Dead, Carpenter Brut, Gunship, Magic Sword, Power Glove, etc.
[1]https://www.last.fm/music/Jean+Michel+Jarre
[2]https://innerfx.bandcamp.com/album/machinarium-soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEsQ4_KiBWQ
T. tested the concept in college
And yes, I admit: yeah - fck else virus
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubstep#Brostep_and_American_d...
http://jasonoda.com/v11/skrillexquest.html
It was a short play through and got me into Skrillex.
Never seen anything like it since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw
You know, for science.