Will We Ever Run Out of New Music?

Click here to subscribe to Vsauce (it's free!): http://bit.ly/POIaN7 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