Category: Music
Singing Hands
iPhone Band on NYC Subway Video
All of the instruments used are iPhones plugged into a sound system. The performance was on Friday October 8, 2010 aboard the New York City B Train, over the Manhattan Bridge into Brooklyn and edited from 3 iPhone cameras.
We Didn’t Start the Fire
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Whether you are a Billy Joel fan or not, you probably remember his great song, ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire..’ click below: |
We Have Traded Sound For Convenience
“People used to sit and listen to music,” Mr. Fremer said, but the increased portability has altered the way people experience recorded music. “It was an activity. It is no longer consumed as an event that you pay attention to.”
Instead, music is often carried from place to place, played in the background while the consumer does something else — exercising, commuting or cooking dinner.
The songs themselves are usually saved on the digital devices in a compressed format, often as an AAC or MP3 file. That compression shrinks the size of the file, eliminating some of the sounds and range contained on a CD while allowing more songs to be saved on the device and reducing download times.
via A Musical Revolution, With a Cost in Fidelity – NYTimes.com.
Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead Archive, scheduled to open soon at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will be a mecca for academics of all stripes: from ethnomusicologists to philosophers, sociologists to historians. But the biggest beneficiaries may prove to be business scholars and management theorists, who are discovering that the Dead were visionary geniuses in the way they created “customer value,” promoted social networking, and did strategic business planning.
via Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead – The Atlantic (March 2010).
“Pants on the Ground” Vs. Susan Boyle
I just find it interesting that what goes viral from England is Susan Boyle singing a lament about their Lost Empire, while Brett Favre is celebrating a football play-off win with his teammates with a round of this viral song from the American version of Idol.
Les Paul & Listerine
Thanks to Dave Kalish for this gem
Why Dogs & Cats Can’t Dance, But Parrots Do
In lab studies of two parrots and close review of the YouTube videos, scientists looked for signs that animals were actually feeling the beat of music they heard.
The verdict: Some parrots did, and maybe an occasional elephant. But researchers found no evidence of that for dogs and cats, despite long exposure to people and music, nor for chimps, our closest living relatives.
Why? The truly boppin’ animals shared with people some ability to mimic sounds they hear, the researchers say. (Even elephants can do that). The brain circuitry for that ability lets people learn to talk, and evidently also to dance or tap their toes to music, suggests Aniruddh Patel of The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego.
via Boogie birdie: Animals shown to ‘dance’ to music – washingtonpost.com.
Search For The Best Grateful Dead Show
THE GRATEFUL DEAD’S live recordings represent a special order of surfeit. Nearly 2,200 Dead shows exist on tape, of the 2,350 or so that the group played. Most of those are available online — either for free streaming on Web sites like archive.org and nugs.net, , or for download on iTunes, like the “Dick’s Picks” series and the more recent “Road Trips” archival series, which uses master-tape audio sources.
Deadheads have often been polled about their favorite show, through fanzines and Web sites. The answers have stayed fairly consistent. May 8, 1977, at Barton Hall, Cornell University. The pairing of Feb. 13 and 14, 1970, at the Fillmore East in New York — perhaps the first widely traded shows.
via Music – Dissecting the Grateful Dead, Forever Live – NYTimes.com.