Posted in Brain, Creativity, Music, Research on Mar 13th, 2008 No Comments »
This report from Scientific Blogging, summarizes the results from the study, “Prefrontal Cortex In Jazz Musicians Winds Down When Improvising.”
It sheds light on the creative process by comparing MRI scans of professional jazz pianists playing on a piano keyboard. Several images of the subjects’ brains were taken as they were doing tasks of varying [...]
Posted in Music, Music industry, Technology on Mar 13th, 2008 No Comments »
This is likely to be merely one of many technology options for manipulating digital music, but it’s the first I have looked at in, oh, ten years? anyhow.. the long and short of it is that I am so impressed by Melodyne.
So far I’ve only watched their sales pitch video. I’ll be coming [...]
Posted in Filesharing, Music, Music industry on Oct 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Competition is a healthy thing for our markets, and it looks like some of the big names are ready to get in there and duke it out with Apple’s Goliath, iTunes.
See the original article here in Business Week.
And the take on it over on Mashable.
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Posted in Books, Brain, Music on Sep 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Here’s an interview with Oliver Sacks from Wired Magazine about his latest publication, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. In what looks to be a fascinating read, he looks at all – or at least many of- the ways the brain has for processing music.
Dr. Sacks is a neurologist and the physician upon whom [...]
Posted in Music, Web 2.0 on Sep 20th, 2007 No Comments »
One of my favorite areas of Web 2.0 that has been expanding in leaps and bounds is that of music. Pandora is the one that I have used for the past 2 years. I begin by entering a song that I am fond of and it creates a “station” based upon the criteria that describe [...]
