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Music: It's in your head, changing your brain

(CNN) -- Michael Jackson was on to something when he sang that "A-B-C" is "simple as "Do Re Mi." Music helps kids remember basic facts such as the order of letters in the alphabet, partly because songs tap into fundamental systems in our brains that are sensitive to melody and beat. That's not all: when you play music, you are exercising your brain in a unique way. "I think there's enough evidence to say that musical experience, musical exposure, musical training, all of those things change your brain," says Dr.
In Imaginary Landscapes , documentarians Duncan Ward and Gabriella Cardazzo paint an impressionistic video portrait of Brian Eno : record producer, visual artist, collaborator with the likes of U2 and David Bowie, ambient music-inventing musician, self-proclaimed “synthesist,” early member of Roxy Music, and co-creator of the Oblique Strategies . Even if you’ve never handled an actual deck of Oblique Strategies cards — and few have — you’ve surely heard one or two of the Strategies themselves in the air: “Honor thy error as a hidden intention.” “The most important thing is the most easily forgotten.”

Brian Eno on Creating Music and Art As Imaginary Landscapes (1989)

http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/brian_eno_on_creating_music_and_art_as_imaginary_landscapes_1989.html
On the final night of the festival (15 April) the Tupac hologram performed "Hail Mary", the final single from his last album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, before Snoop Dogg joined him on stage for a performance of "Ain't Nothin' Like a Gangsta Party". The life-like apparition provoked mixed reactions, with fans tweeting that it was "amazing" and "creepy" and leading to speculation that the rapper was in fact still alive. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/holographic-tupac-shakur-performs-on-stage-with-snoop-dogg-7647430.html

Holographic Tupac Shakur performs on stage with Snoop Dogg - News - Music - The Independent

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This video is no longer available on youtube by Francois Jan 23

When I was an Art Director at Digitas and later Creative Director at FCB (now DRAFT/FCB ), I was always looking for great music to accompany my work. I was shocked to find that at that time (late 1990’s) there were few online resources for quality production music and even fewer for custom soundtracks. Being a trained composer/producer, I started creating music for myself, then my teams and soon agency-wide.

Royalty Free Music - from 300 Monks « 300 Monks Visionary Music

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Composer: Geoffrey Wilson A raw, driving, instrumental rock tune with a lot of attitude, record scratches and influence from the streets of New York City. Would work well in action, chase, pursuit, military, urban, crime, spy, sports competition and adventure scenes. KEYWORDS:exciting, aggressive, rebellious, confrontational, dangerous, energetic, provocative, intriguing, mysterious, poignant, challenge, infiltration, rescue, competitive, tough, apprehensive, escape, flee, investigate, night, run, flight, undercover, surveillance, intelligence, espionage, agent, recovery, operation, extraction, contravene, intercept, preempt, converge, compete, bold, retaliate, determined, forceful, hard, loud, strong, wild, heated, intense, escalate

Music for A Book Trailer, Suspense Novels « 300 Monks Visionary Music

http://www.300monks.com/2011/01/music-for-a-book-trailer-suspense-novels/

John Lee Hooker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper , William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally a unique brand of country blues . He developed a ' talking blues ' style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his blues guitar playing and singing. His best known songs include " Boogie Chillen' " (1948), "I'm in the Mood" (1951) and " Boom Boom " (1962), the first two reaching R&B #1 in the Billboard charts . [ edit ] Early life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lee_Hooker

10 Ways to Share Music on Twitter

Twitter is fast becoming one of the most important ways to share information quickly, easily, and instantly over the web. Users and developers have found a lot of innovative ways to pack a ton of utility into just 140 characters, including sharing images , sharing video , and sharing documents . What about music? Turns out, there are plenty of ways to share tunes on Twitter as well. Below are ten of the best ways to tweet about what you’re listening to. http://mashable.com/2009/05/29/twitter-music/
1611 woodcut of Josquin des Prez, copied from a now-lost oil painting done during his lifetime [ 1 ] Josquin des Prez [Josquin Lebloitte dit Desprez] ( French pronunciation: [ʒɔskɛ̃ depʁe] ; c. 1450/1455 – 27 August 1521), often referred to simply as Josquin , was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance . He is also known as Josquin Desprez and Latinized as Josquinus Pratensis , alternatively Jodocus Pratensis , although he himself expressed his preferred spelling of his name, Josquin des Prez, in an acrostic in his motet Illibata Dei virgo nutrix . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was the most famous European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Palestrina , and is usually considered to be the central figure of the Franco-Flemish School. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josquin_des_Prez

Josquin des Prez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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