Check this out: guitar strings silhouetted against the sky, filmed from the inside of a 12-string guitar as someone plays a tune called “Lick Mountain Ramble.” The “stop-motion” effect induced by the very nature of video lets us see the lengths & shapes of the waves which are resonating through each string.
The title of this post on NPR’s site says it all: For Elders With Dementia, Music Sparks Great Awakenings.
We are so deeply connected to music I don’t think we yet understand the breadth and depth of it.
There are so many amazing things happening online now with music and audio software. More and more is possible with software that doesn’t even live on your computer. Noteflight, a cloud-based music notation program, is one example of this. It doesn’t compare to Sibelius and Finale (yet), but considering it’s all taking place through a website… it’s fantastic. And of course, this engenders an entire social facet of the music-creating experience that never existed until now.
I have just added a new favorite feed: Interchanging Idioms by Chip Michael. He has subtitled it “Classical Music of the 21st Century.” I might change that to “Classical Music...
The Crane Wives’ first album, “Safe Ship, Harbored,” blends pop, folk, rock and cabaret for a really interesting and worthwhile first album—the kind that’s fascinating to look back upon from the tail end of a long catalog but still has plenty to offer on its own.