Be sure to checkout this clock gobbler: "PLINK". A fun easy way to make collaborative music together. (Chrome Browser required).
Composing Music In Seattle
[From the Seattle Times]
It's a tedious process, and one that's evolving rapidly as fewer composers are classically trained. Technology has, in some ways, also undermined the artistry of scoring. Anyone with a sound library can produce musical mock-ups.
Seattle's industry lies mostly in composing for films, video games and other mediums. Successful composers can make anywhere from $20,000 to $1.4 million for a film assignment.
On Lead Synthesizer: A Philodendron?
We all think we know what nature sounds like: birds chirping, brooks babbling, thunder...thundering. There are other phenomena in our natural environment, however, that produce information which we cannot perceive through our current biological senses. To remedy this, the Philadelphia Museum of Art used sensors to detect electronic impulses and record the resulting plant-generated music. Even if you can't imagine rocking out to all 116 minutes of bio-feedback, you can at least hear a sampling of the audio experiment here.
Anonymous Plans to Compete With the Music Industry
Wired reports that coders claiming to be part of Anonymous are creating Anontune: a service that seamlessly pulls up songs streaming from all around the internet. The project, still in its infancy, is designed to pull songs from third-party sources like YouTube and let anonymous users put them into playlists and share them — while keeping the service from being shut down by music industry lawsuits.
(A word of caution: The system relies on executing a Java applet. Unless you are extremely trusting or using VMWare, think very carefully about running code on your machine that was written by members of Anonymous.)
Tupac 'Hologram' Raps With Snoop Dogg At Coachella
Ancient Structures' Mind Altering Acoustics
Popular Archaeology with research on how the acoustics of ancient structures altered sound and mind through
"deactivation of the language center and a temporary shifting from left to right-sided dominance related to emotional processing and creativity. This shifting did not occur at 90 Hz or 130 Hz......In addition to stimulating their more creative sides, it appears that an atmosphere of resonant sound in the frequency of 110 or 111 Hz would have been “switching on” an area of the brain that bio-behavioral scientists believe relates to mood, empathy and social behavior. Deliberately or not, the people who spent time in such an environment under conditions that may have included a low male voice -- in ritual chanting or even simple communication -- were exposing themselves to vibrations that may have actually impacted their thinking."
MPAA Chief Denies Lobbying, Talks SOPA and MegaUpload
The Hollywood Reporter: Rules prohibit former lawmakers from lobbying on Capitol Hill for two years after they leave office. In your case, that means not until early next year. You have said it hasn't hurt the MPAA since anyone on your staff can carry out your wishes. But is it difficult?
Christopher Dodd: It is awkward. I spent 36 years on Capitol Hill and have great personal friends, and you'd think they'd know better. But people call me all the time, and I have to remind them that I can't talk to them about certain things, but I can talk to the White House, I can talk to ambassadors, I just can't talk to my former colleagues.
Authors of the book "Your Playlist Can Change Your Life" argue that music's benefits hold for everyone and that if we queue up our tunes with care they'll lift our mood, reduce anxiety, raise motivation, help us work out better and even fight off depression and insomnia. The trick, is to find what songs relax you, say, or make you more alert — and then hone your playlist to fit the moment...
Getting in Rhythm Helps Children Grasp Fractions
Tapping out a beat may help children learn difficult fraction concepts, according to new findings due to be published in the journal Educational Studies in Mathematics. An innovative curriculum uses rhythm to teach fractions at a California school where students in a music-based program scored significantly higher on math tests than their peers who received regular instruction...
Emotion in Music and Speech Expressed Similarly
According to Duke researchers, music's major mode is typically used to convey excited, happy or bright emotions, whereas the minor mode typically conveys subdued, sad or dark emotions. Recent studies indicate that the tones used in music parallel similar tones in speech, and that these rules hold true for western and eastern music. The results support the hypothesis that the tonality of a piece of music expresses emotion because it imitates the tonal characteristics of emotion in the voice... [Full research]
Musicians At Risk for Dermititis?
According to the American Academy of Dermatology, whether you play a musical instrument in your school band, as a weekend hobby, or as a professional, you may be at risk for a common skin condition. Metals, skin care products and cosmetics are common culprits for allergic contact dermatitis, but musical instruments (especially shared instruments) pose a potential hazard due to some of the components of the instruments that come into contact with the skin...
Harry Potter and Santa Claus Enhance Creativity
Researchers from Lancaster University have discovered that films like Harry Potter can improve imagination and creativity. "Magical thinking enables children to create fantastic imaginary worlds, and in this way enhances children's capacity to view the world and act upon it from multiple perspectives. The results suggested that books and videos about magic might serve to expand children's imagination and help them to think more creatively..."
Sleepiness and Booze Boost Creativity
Up to a certain point. New studies highlight unexpected benefits of not being able to focus thanks to alcohol and grogginess, namely, the improved ability to solve creative insight puzzles, in which the answer arrives suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere. Sometimes it helps to allow our imaginations to consider irrelevant information, to eavesdrop on all the stray associations unfolding in the far reaches of the brain. We are more likely to find the answer because we have less control over where we look...
Advances in Hearing Aid Technologies
Digital advances have made hearing aids smaller, smarter and easier to use.
And microchips, laser beams and even insects may help create a more crystal-clear experience in the future.
The most advanced hearing aids interact with other devices such as smartphones and digital music players to deliver sounds directly and wirelessly to the listener's ear.
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Our Obsession with Dark Music
If it can be said that art is an accurate indicator of our collective unconscious, then this could be the darkest age of love yet. And although I'm loath to be the bearer of bad tidings, the future looks so dim, you might just want to remove your shades and revert to regular spectacles. An emerging constellation of cultural productions in the second decade of the new millennium is, so far, pointing toward a slow descent into the long, dark night of the soul. Historically, pockets of doomy and gloomy music have flourished during traumatic times...
Copyright Kings Are Judge, Jury and Executioner
YouTube's Content ID system flagged a video of a user foraging a salad in a field, claiming the background music matched a composition licensed by a music licensing firm in Portland, Oregon. The only problem? There is no music in the video; only bird calls and other sounds of nature. Naturally, the user filed a dispute, explaining that the audio couldn't possibly be copyrighted. Amazingly, his dispute was rejected...
What Makes Music Enjoyable?
BMC Research Notes recently published a detailed article with some interesting theories about what makes music beautiful and enjoyable. Music is clearly full of patterns, some relate to harmony, some to melody. The most delightful compositions balance predictability and surprise. This appreciation "....rests on our ability to discern patterns in the notes and rhythms and use them to make predictions about what will come next. When our anticipations are violated, we experience tension; when the expectation is met, we have a pleasurable sense of release".
Tunecore: Over 70% Of New Music Bought Is From Artists Not Tied Into The Old Industry
TuneCore is an online distribution service that enables musicians to place their music in online retailers such as iTunes and AmazonMP3, effectively bypassing the RIAA. In an open response to Cary Sherman's Op-Ed in the New York Times critizing the Google and Wikipedia blackout against SOPA, the CEO of TuneCore claims the RIAA and its members are the voice of what the industry was, and an ever-shrinking part of what is. According to TuneCore, the majority of music being distributed, bought, sold, shared and streamed is coming from outside the traditional industry...
Lowe's Knows Lumber Drum Circles
New York percussion group "Mantra" (band site) recently assembled and played a drum set on six two-by-fours in a Virginia Lowe's store. A unique use of timber, to be sure, and a rather interesting, primitive sound...
The Merging of Classics and Electronic Music
A new rockumentary film entitled "RE:GENERATION" takes five of the biggest DJs/producers in the world and pairs them with influential artists from multiple genres as they create new music on film...
How Some Songs Tap Into Our Emotions
WSJ reports that certain features of music are consistently associated with producing strong emotions in listeners. Music is most likely to tingle the spine when it includes surprises in volume, timbre and harmonic pattern, or when it contains something called an "appoggiatura", a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound. "This generates tension in the listener"...
We've upgraded the multi track midi player to handle more tracks (16 is the maximum allowed in a midi file), and added an instrument / track legend for the different instrument numbers.
We'll make the instruments easily previewable in the near future, but in the meantime, enjoy the performance of yet another amazing multi track playing musician.
It's the Multi Track, Man
Wish you could easily create a multi-instrument midi? Well your wish has been granted, my friend. We are pleased to announce that we now support multiple tracks and instruments in the tabs. In honor of the multi tracks (example here) we present the multi track 'Cigo Man Band'!
The Science Behind our Musical Instincts
We tab it. We play it. We love it. But what purpose does music serve humanity, and how is it able to connect with us so easily on an emotional level? Was Darwin's theory about music's purpose -- making our ancestors more successful at mating -- correct? The economist touches on the science behind music...
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