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Some people can listen to first chords of Pachelbel’s Canon and feel their eyelids getting heavy, but others can listen to the whole thing without an impact, …or some people just want to cover their ears. Can internal ‘brain music’ be used in therapy? - science-in-society - 24 April 2009 - New Scientist
No wonder this Tom Waits clip has nearly 1 million views.
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse Frank Zappa
Oh dear, Paul McCartney’s earnings are down because of the credit crunch. Could it possibly be because the Beatles’ back catalogue has still not been licensed digitally? Or that his last two solo albums have been complete rubbish?
http://www.newmusicbox.org/chatter/chatter.nmbx?id=5956 This guy has a point about the long pre-concert talk. Do you really want to hear the work after such a long talk? Why not discuss in the interval or afterwards?
http://tinyurl.com/cl2yon Monetise, monitise, monetise. PS, I’m proud to be one of the few people left who hasn’t seen anything to do with the aforementioned singer.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103304036&ft=1&f=1039 There’s been quite a lot of buzz about Steve Reich winning the Pulitzer prize for his Double Sextet. From the extract on NPR it sounds like an interesting work. It’s also good to see Eight Blackbird who commissioned and performed the work share in the success. They’re a super group and I really like their recording of Frederic Rzewski’s works. I wonder how long it will take before a commercial recording is issued? Hopefully not too long… Interestingly...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/24/eu-extends-copyright-70-years Good to see the fund being set up as part of the deal to pay session musicians who surrendered their rights. I wonder how it’s going to work out in practice?