The Liverbirds: The Female Beatles from Liverpool If you are a fan of the Beatles, you may have heard of the Liverbirds, an all-female rock band from Liverpool that was active in the 1960s. The Liverbirds [...]
This is a great video by Inside the Score about Nadia Boulanger, a remarkable French music teacher and conductor who raised a generation of composers in the 20th century. She came from a musical family and [...]
If you're into photography and music, you might want to check out the work of Robert Götzfried, a German photographer who has a passion for capturing the beauty of pipe organs. Götzfried started his series Pipes in 2017, after [...]
The most popular song each month since january 1980 Today I stumbled accidently over this video, and I got really exciting... Determining the most popular song each month was done with MediaTraffic, which averages [...]
A Brief History of the Concept Album A Brief History of the Concept Album is a video by Polyphonic, a YouTube channel that explores the stories behind music. The video traces the origins [...]
The system of writing music that we use today has its origins in the 15th century, when composers started to use different symbols to indicate the duration of each note in a piece. This was called mensural notation, and [...]
How Shawn Fanning triggered a momentous shift in how media is consumed everywhere. I think it is safe to say that the battle for attention is now both fierce and intense. Everywhere we look, there are ads, notifications, [...]
Dr . Claude Shannon 12 lessons from the article on its own are a great blueprint for getting things done! 1) Cull your inputs. 2) Big picture first. Details later. 3) Don't just find a [...]
Electronic Dance Music Electronic music (EM) is a musical and social movement finding a new way to express new ideas within a generation, using music technology for creative potential in live performance and the [...]
