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I was recently re-reading the introduction to This is Your Brain on Music  by Daniel J. Levitin. While I find most of the book fascinating a...

I have a bit of an obsession with videos that feature music made with non-musical instruments. Tan Dun partially sparked this with his conce...

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen. -Bj ö rk

This is a short article on the Smithsonian site about utilizing CT scanning on Stradivarius violins and the instruments of his contemporarie...

I've been flipping through my iTunes because I'm working on a mix for somebody I love, and I rediscovered my deep love of Paul Lansk...

There was such a cool, unattainable quality to the characters in the film adaptation of Ghost World . I certainly didn't want to be Eni...

1. The original "ping" sound effect in Pong was created by Atari engineer Al Alcorn, from an amplified waveform from the game'...

“It’s like a traffic jam. Sometimes we don’t even hear that there’s music playing. That’s the worst thing. We don’t hear the sounds any mo...

I've been listening to a lot of P ärt's music lately...I've been researching for a paper on his music, and so while I read and t...

There has been some awesome discourse via Matt Wascher, who I did my undergrad with. I put up this post and he actually responded, which I...

For some reason, she looks a little like Keira Knightley in this pic. Does anybody else see that too? Am I crazy? Many thanks to Taylor fo...

My only complaint with this group is that I never remember how they spell their frikkin' name, so I end up typing it in and seeing resul...

I perked up when in my Ethnomusicology class, one of the case studies focused on the professor's mother playing Slovene polkas at home. ...

I find it so exciting, and often wonder why it is that symphony orchestras find it so difficult to champion new music, to draw some sort of ...

Have you heard of Tan Dun? The guy that wrote all the music for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ? He wrote such a compelling soundtrack. It m...

Our first day of my ethnomusicology class, the professor opened with one question: "Why did you become a musician?" Many of us h...

The entire cycle goes something like this: I loved Lady Gaga circa Just Dance , and from there everything she has released ...

I just began a new semester at CSU. It seems sort of late; I was actually going a little stir-crazy at home with nothing to work on. I had...

Christmas saw a glorious return to purchased compact discs. A hiatus from iTunes. There's something nice about returning to the tactile ...

I haven't been updating much. Why is this? I've been listening to all the Mahler symphonies...in a row. They have pretty much l...

Carl Orff wrote a great piece. The Carmina Burana is an incredible achievement. I get that. I listen to it, and think it is one of the most ...