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• Psychology of Music

  10Oct
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  It aims to explain and understand musical behavior and musical experience. Modern music psychology is mainly empirical: music-psychological knowledge tends to advance primarily on the basis of interpretations of data about musical behavior and experience, which are collected by systematic observation of and interaction with human participants.

  The scope of music psychology:

  Humans spend enormous amounts of time, effort, and money on musical activities. Why? The modern, international field of music psychology is gradually exploring a multitude of issues that surround this central question. Music psychology may be regarded as scientific research about human culture. The results of this research have, and will continue to have, direct implications for matters of general concern: human values, human identity, human nature, and quality of life.

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• Music cognition

  10Sep
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  The field of music cognition involves the study of many aspects of music including how it is processed by listeners. Rather than accepting the standard practices of analyzing, composing, and performing music as a given, much research in music cognition seeks instead to uncover the mental processes that underlie these practices. Also, research in the field seeks to uncover commonalities between the musical traditions of disparate cultures and possible cognitive “constraints” that limit these musical systems. Questions regarding musical innateness, and emotional responses to music are also major areas of research in the field.

  Tags: Music Cognition

• Write Your Own Music (Part 1)

  10Jan
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  So, you want to write your own music huh? Here are some tips to help you turn it on!

  First and foremost, think about your audience. Who would they be? Would they be able to relate to your music? You must aim to connect with them emotionally, and you could do this by many ways: powerful lyrics, evocative music, catchy tunes, skilled use of instruments, and many others. In order to do just that, you must practice your technical and artistic skills and keep them at their toes by doing something new every now and then.

  Seek inspiration, it’s all around you and deep within you. Listen to others’ songs and learn from them. Stop comparing yourself with other songwriters and create your own style.

  to be continued…

  Tags: compose, music, songwriter, songwriting, write

• Broken beat

  28Dec
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  Appearing in the western parts of London, the genre is also referred to as West London, mainly because Goya Music’s offices were in London‘s Ladbroke Grove, W11, as were most of the participating artists studios.  Broken beat is an electronic music genre first appearing at the end of the 20th century and pioneered by Goya Music Distribution

• Music Over the Net

  23Oct
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  The internet has birthed to great changes in music experience, because of increase choice and access to songs. YouTube has provided an opportunity for amateur and professional musicians to post their music videos for the public to enjoy. MySpace has bridged the gap between musician to fellow musician, facilitating the distribution of songs among many. Also, there are sites that allow download of songs at a fee, or sometimes even for free. Which is good for listeners but very bad for the producers! For me, I think that they would have to revise a lot of things to keep up with the changes, or else, music would be entangled in a net spawned by the internet.

  Tags: internet, music, myspace, piracy, youtube

• Techno world has MPs beat

  20Sep
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  Prime minister Tony Blair has championed e-government and launched several multimillion-pound IT projects.   The ID card bill, whose essential element relies on disparate technologies such as biometrics and databases working perfectly together, has absorbed much of this parliament’s time Understanding technology – information technology at least – would be close to MPs’ hearts

• Balkan Beat Box: An All-World Techno Explosion

  10Jul
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  In 2005, the duo teamed up and assembled a group of musicians as diverse as their musical backgrounds — members hail from Turkey, Israel, Spain and Morocco — to form Balkan Beat Box. They are accomplished underground musicians Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat They have performed in many innovative bands in the past decade. And recorded a danceable self-titled debut, which was an instant success

• Techno Fusion from Balkan Beat Box

  30Jun
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  With dancing ladies and big trombones, the sound of Balkan Beat Box carries a faint reminder of the day the circus came to town,. But the dancers are belly dancers and the saxophones and brass recalls the Klezmer tradition of going from village to village, in this case, the Booklyn, to weddings and funerals.In this case, the village is Brooklyn.

• Andy Norman – Hed Kandi DJ

  06Feb
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  One of the biggest names in Hed Kandi is Andy Norman, who is considered an “elder statesman” of Hed Kandi. Norman, who is 39 years old and lives in London, has been a part of Hed Kandi for quite awhile, ever since 1989, when he started working with label founder Mark Doyle, making him one of the pioneers of one of the world’s most influential and popular dance record labels. He and Mark started out holding small local cub events, which blossomed to the awesome success Hed Kandi is now. He’s been a current Team Kandi resident for about six years, and continue to tour the world and spreading the mixes and beats of Hed Kandi. He also hosts a weekly radio show for the Kandi radio team.

• DJ’s Ruling the Dancing World

  25Jan
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  There was a time when party meant music and music meant DJ’s, who started out at home mixing their own tunes sending out samplers and then slowly climbing up the ladder to fame. Today, no party, concert or anything else would be without a respectable DJ. Gone were the days of turntables and several vinyl records being selected for their complementary sounds, DJ’s of today with the help of technology, computers and the several hundred or so gadgets and gizmos can do anything with any music.
  The days when DJ’s were hired to do the record changes are gone and they have become some of the hottest commodities around. Want a successful dance club, get a pricy one who are reported to earn five figures for major gigs. Even major artists have their own guys/gals in their ranks to bring their concerts to life and albums to ever new heights that have made concerts all the better and wilder. They give us music from some of the most unlikely combinations and more.