1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die
I just saw Tom Moon on Carson a few nights ago promoting his book, 1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die. The premise of the book is to educate and open up the minds of readers by introducing them to genres and records which they may have written off before. You could easily write a [...]
2008 vs 1968: The Year In Music
I found this article in the Boston globe. I hadn’t realized how significant 1968 was in the world of music: In 2008, a flurry of releases arrived to remind us of the inventive vibrancy of the pop music scene . . . of four decades ago. Albums by the Beatles, Stones, Jimi, Janis, Aretha, Marvin, [...]
Rap Music Originated In Medieval Scottish Pubs
My dad has always been proud of his Scottish roots, and never minced words when expressing his distaste for hip hop. Maybe now, he’ll have to reconsider. Ferenc Szasz, professor of American and Scottish culture at the University of New Mexico, claims that the modern rap battle finds its origins in medieval Scottish “flyting.” Read [...]
Human Evolution and Music | Why Music?
I found this article in the Economist on the coffee table at my parents’ house over the holidays. It’s a great quick read on how and why music has become such an intergral part of the human experience. Human Evolution and Music | Why Music?
Using Math to Decode the Beatles
So it took some big brains and fast computers to figure out the opening chord in the Beatles’ song “Hard Day’s Night”, a chord that has plagued guitarists in countless coverbands for decades. Using the fourier transforms in Melodyne’s Direct Note Access (DNA), developed by Peter Neubacker, Dalhousie University professor Jason Brown was able to [...]
